The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals Relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of the Sudan

Five: Dr. James Lumgair Davie Roy, who served with the Sudan Defence Force

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; together with the University of Glasgow Hunter Prize Medal, (James L. D. Roy, 1922-23 in Practical Zoology Class (Prof. J. Graham Kerr) 70mm., bronze, in fitted case of issue, extremely fine (5) £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Allan and Janet Woodliffe Collection of Medals relating to the Reconquest and Pacification of The Sudan 1896-1956.

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James Lumgair Davie Roy was born in Alloa, Clackmannanshire on 15 January 1904. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, from 1922, and won the Hunter Prize in Zoology. He graduated as a M.B. and Ch. B. from Glasgow in 1928.

Commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 20 November 1940, he was subsequently attached to the Sudan Medical Service at Khartoum and latterly worked for the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Khartoum. He gained the D.Ph. Eng. in 1955 and died in Blackpool on 9 September 1957.

With Sudan Government, Ministry of Health letter dated 10 October 1954 confirming his entitlement to the above war medals. With copied research.