Orders, Decorations and Medals

Nine: Honorary Brigadier J. P. MacNamara, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. P. MacNamara); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Capt. J. P. MacNamara, R.A.M.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt. J. P. MacNamara); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, contact marks, cleaned and polished, otherwise generally very fine (9) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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John Philip MacNamara was born in May 1893 and qualified in medicine in Dublin in the course of 1916. Mobilised as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. (Special Reserve) in January of the following year, he served in the Third Afghan War and in Iraq, in addition to the Waziristan operations of 1919-21, and was advanced to substantive Captain in July 1920. Then following a tour of duty with the British Army on the Rhine in the mid-1920s, he served back in India between 1927-32 and 1936-39, including operations on the North West Frontier from 1930-31, and attained the rank of Major prior to being recalled home on the outbreak of hostilities. Seconded for service with the force sent to Iceland in 1940, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, MacNamara went on to serve in West Africa and Burma, gain advancement to Temporary Brigadier and win a brace of ‘Mentions’ (London Gazettes 27 September 1945 and 19 September 1946 refer). His final appointment before retiring as an Honorary Brigadier in December 1950 was at H.Q. East Africa Command. He died in Co. Kildare in August 1962.