Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Hebblethwaite, Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, very fine and better (7) £800-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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M.C. London Gazette 18 June 1917 (Edinburgh Gazette 20 June 1917) ‘Capt., M.B., R.A.M.C., attd. Lond. R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He organised and trained a detachment of stretcher bearers and supervised their operation under heavy fire. All casualties were cleared within a short time of the completion of the operations. This was due to the excellent training and example set by this officer’.

Arthur Stuart Hebblethwaite qualified at Leeds as a M.B., Ch.B. in 1914 and gained the D.P.H. at Leeds in 1920. He was Medical Officer of Health, Borough and Port of Sunderland, a Member of the British Medical Association; a Fellow of the Royal Sanitary Institution and Society of Medical Officers of Health. Formerly Resident Medical Officer at the Leeds City Hospital for Infectious Diseases and Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Bradford and Leeds. Serving in the Great War with the R.A.M.C., he was awarded the M.C. He was also the author of two papers during the war on the treatment of chlorine gas poisoning.