Orders, Decorations and Medals

A mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals representative of the medals awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel N. L. Corkhill, Sudan Defence Force, late Liverpool Regiment, Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel, ring suspension, some enamel damage; Military Medal, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 slip-on clasp, Arabian Peninsula; Coronation 1953; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted for display, very fine and better (12) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Miniature Medals from the Collection of Ian McInnes.

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Norman Lace Corkhill was born on 11 June 1898 and educated at the Liverpool Institute and (postwar) the Liverpool University. In the Great War he served as a Sergeant in the 2/6th Battalion Liverpool Regiment and was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 13 September 1918) and Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 16 June 1918). Postwar at Liverpool University he qualified as a M.B. and Ch.B. (1925) and M.D. (1936). He was with the Iraq Health Service, 1927-30 and Professor of Zoology at the Royal College of Medicine of Iraq and Civil Staff Surgeon at Baghdad. With the Sudan Medical Service, 1930-46, he served with the Sudan Defence Force and R.A.M.C. Ranked as Miralai and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1940-44, he was M.O.H., Khartoum, 1944; Assistant Director of Public Health, Sudan Medical Service, 1945-46; Senior Lecturer in Tropical Hygiene at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1946-48; Health Advisor, Aden Protectorate, 1951-52 and served with the World Health Organisation, 1951 and 1962-63. Latterly living in Bude, Cornwall, Corkhill died on 26 September 1966.

These medals are representative of the awards to the above and have been assembled in recent years for display purposes.