Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 434

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£200

New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, 2nd type (Major A. S. Brewis, N.Z.M.C. (1918)) minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £100-140

O.B.E. London Gazette 31 December 1918.

Doctor Andrew Seymour Brewis was born on 6 October 1865 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England and was educated at Durham University and St. Thomas' Hospital, London and took his degrees in 1886 and 1889. He served for three years in the 1st Newcastle Rifles and 3rd Volunteer Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers from 1878 to 1881. Arriving in New Zealand in 1891, he established his practice in Waikato in the following year. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the New Zealand Medical Corps (Territorial Force) on 11 May 1905, promoted to Captain in June 1905, and to Major in December 1915. First serving with the 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles, he was transferred from No.1 Company Waikato Mounted Rifles Volunteers to No. 2 Battalion Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers in June 1905. He was posted to command No. 5 Mounted Field Ambulance in May 1912.

He attested to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Trentham on 27 November 1915 and embarked for service overseas on the
Maunganui (H.M.T.S. No. 37) on 8 January 1916 with the 9th Reinforcements for Egypt, and was attached to New Zealand General Hospital at Cairo before being posted to No. 3 N.Z. Field Ambulance at Moascar. In April 1916 he embarked at Alexandria for France on H.T. Minnewaska. There in June he was temporarily attached to No. 1 N.Z. Field Ambulance in France, from which he was detached in July to London for duty and posted to the New Zealand Convalescent Hospital at Hornchurch, and then to the Reserve Group (Otago-Canterbury Regiment), Sling Camp (Salisbury Plain). In January 1918 he was transferred from Sling and detailed to Command No. 2 N.Z. General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames. In March he was posted to the N.Z. Rifle Brigade Reserve Depot at Brocton, from where, in July, he was admitted to the N.Z. Convalescent Home at Brighton. Found to be unfit for general service in the near future, he was then evacuated to New Zealand. Soon after his return he was appointed to be Commandant, Queen Mary's Hospital, Hanmer effective 29 January 1919. 3/2001 Major A.S. Brewis was struck off the strength of the N.Z.E.F. from 12 August 1919 and was transferred to the Reserve of Officers with effect from 10 May 1921. He was posted to the Retired List effective 25 November 1925 with permission to retain his rank and wear his prescribed uniform. For his wartime services he was awarded the O.B.E., British War and Victory Medals. Sold with a copied service papers, General Orders, and New Zealand Gazette Notices (over 120 pages).