A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander C. S. Brewer, Mersey Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, late Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Surg. Lt. Cr. C. S. Brewer, R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. Cr. C. S. Brewer. R.N.V.R.); Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Surgeon C. S. Brewer, R.N.VR.) mounted court style, cleaned, otherwise extremely fine (5) £800-£1,000

John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2008.

Only 65 R.N.V.R. L.S. & G.C. medals awarded during the reign of Edward VII.

Charles Samuel Brewer received his medical training at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, qualifying as L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S., Edinburgh, 1882, and later D.P.H., Liverpool 1909. He was appointed Surgeon of the Birkenhead Corps of the Liverpool Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, 30 October 1889, serving until the R.N.A.V. were disbanded on 1 April 1892. He was appointed Surgeon of the R.N.V.R. on 3 February 1904, in the Liverpool Division, later re-titled Mersey Division. He received the R.N.V.R. L.S. & G.C. medal during the reign of Edward VII, and was appointed an O.B.E. (Military) on 11 June 1919, for valuable services at the Depot for Mercantile Marine Reserve Ratings at Liverpool. Doctor Brewer practised in Birkenhead and died there on 7 September 1927.

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