Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Jones Whitla Alexander Cushing, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, with Second, Third and Fourth Award Clasps (all G.VI.R.), unnamed, mounted court style for wear, good very fine (5)
£140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Robert Jones Whitla Alexander Cushing was born in Everton, Lancashire, on 10 October 1885. Cushing was a Doctor of Medicine. He received his medical training at Guy’s Hospital, and he graduated as a M.A., M.B., and B.Ch. at Oxford in 1915. He was then granted a commission as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) on 20 August 1915 in the 2nd London (City of London) General Hospital. Promoted to Captain in February 1916, he served overseas during 1917-18. After the Great War he was employed as an Assistant School Medical Officer of the Birmingham Education Committee in 1921; then the same in Bristol, 1921-24. He was then employed as Assistant Medical Officer of Health at Colchester from 1925 until he retired in 1950. Cushing rejoined the T.A. in 1925, being appointed a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (T.A.). He served with the 54th (East Anglian) Divisional Train, R.A.S.C. (T.A.) before being appointed Major, R.A.M.C. (T.A.) in October 1926, and Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1936. Major Cushing was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1935, the award being published in the London Gazette of 15 November 1935. During the Second World War Lieutenant-Colonel Cushing was employed as Commandant of the Military Isolation Hospital at Aldershot. Having exceeded the age limit, he was retired from the T.A. on 18 February 1949. For his long service in the T.A., Cushing was awarded three clasps to his Efficiency Decoration, these being published in the London Gazette of 14 August 1951. Cushing was a member of the B.M.A. and a Fellow of the Society of M.O.H. He was author of Cardiac Disease following Scarlet Fever in Children and other papers in various medical journals. His wife, Yvonne A. Cushing also had medical training. Lieutenant-Colonel Cushing died on 2 March 1963.

Sold with some original photographs; three Guy’s Hospital Medical Certificates awarded to Yvonne Cushing, 1932-34; and other copied research.