Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain L. H. Booth, King’s African Rifles, late West African Medical Staff

1914-15 Star (L. H. Booth); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. H. Booth); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Jubaland 1917-18 (Capt., 5/K.A.R.); Royal Humane Society Medal, small, bronze, successful (Dr. Lionel H. Booth, 6th Jany. 1914) good very fine and better (5) £400-500

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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‘At 11.00 a.m. on 6/01/1914 Lionel H. Booth, West African Medical Staff and his native dispenser were in a canoe which capsized in the Warri River, Southern Nigeria, the water being deep and aligators present. Dr Booth swam to the help of the man and kept him afloat till they were picked up’. (Case No. 40,726).