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№ 1172

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£220

A Great War Mesopotamia operations O.B.E. pair awarded to Captain D. C. Baxter, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type, the reverse hallmarked London 1917; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Q.M. & Capt.) good very fine (2) £160-180

O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 3 June 1919: ‘O.C. 33rd Advanced Depot, Medical Stores, Basrah, Mesopotamia.’

Captain Baxter also served in France and Flanders from 24 May 1915 and was mentioned in despatches (
London Gazette 10 July 1919).