Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of six awarded to Major H. W. Wiltshire, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, enamel damage to reverse centre; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Serbia, Order of St. Sava, 4th Class breast badge, saint with red robes, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage, generally good very fine 6)
£2000-2500

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918 (Salonika).

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919 (Balkans).

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1918 (Salonika); 5 June 1919 (Salonika).

St. Sava 4th Class London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Harold Waterlow Wiltshire was born in Marylebone, London on 2 May 1879, the son of Alfred Wiltshire, M.D., F.R.C.P. He was educated at Cheltenham College, Clare College, Cambridge and King’s College Hospital and graduated as B.A. Cantab. 1900, M.A. 1904. M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. 1904, M.B., B.C. Cantab. 1907, M.D. 1910.

Serving in the Great War, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 21 August 1914. Was teacher of Clinical Medicine to Officers in the R.A.M.C. during 1914. Later served in the Balkans and served as Temporary Major, 1916-18. For his services in that theatre of war he was twice mentioned in despatches (Who’s Who states three times); was awarded the D.S.O. and O.B.E. and the Serbian Order of St. Sava.

Wiltshire married Ellen Tibbits on 3 June 1925. He was latterly Consulting Physician, King’s College Hospital. At various times he was Physician-in-Charge Cardiological Department and Lecturer in Practical Medicine,King’s College Hospital, Vice Dean of King’s College Hospital and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Extensively published in the field of medicine. Latterly living at Lane End House, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, he died on 18 January 1937, aged 57 years.

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