Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Colonel P. E. Woodland, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt., R.A.V.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War and India Service Medals; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted for display, good very fine and better (7) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Veterinary Surgeons and the Army Veterinary Corps.

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Percy Frederick Woodland was born in Chelsea on 19 January 1896. He qualified as a M.R.C.V.S. from the Veterinary College, London, on 19 January 1917. Commissioned into the Special Reserve on 3 January 1917, he transferred to the ‘Regular’ A.V.C. with the rank of Captain in July 1919. Served in India, March 1917-December 1922; promoted to Major in January 1927 and to Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1944. Woodland retired on an Indian Pension in December 1948 and was granted the honorary rank of Colonel. With copied research.