Pair: Midshipman W. J. B. Riddell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Glasgow

British War and Victory Medals (Mid. W. J. B. Riddell, R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (2) £70-£90

Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2012.

William John Brownlow Riddell was born in 1899 and was educated at the Glasgow Academy, Glasgow University and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Commissioned Midshipman in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 9 March 1917, he served during the Great War in the destroyer H.M.S. Lysander in the North Sea and English Channel from 10 May 1917 until the cessation of hostilities. Resuming his distinguished medical career, amongst his many latter honours and achievements he was Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Glasgow; Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Western Infirmary, Glasgow; Lucien Howe Lecturer, Harvard, 1946; Charles H. May Lecturer, New York Academy of Medicine, 1946; President of the Ophthalmic section of the B.M.A., 1954; and Convocation Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1954. Laterly living at Gladstone Place, Aberdeen, Professor Riddell died on 18 February 1976.

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