Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Major F. H. Moxon, Royal Army Medical Corps

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) good very fine (4)
£300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with Military operations in France.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.

Francis Henry Moxon was born in 1879. He worked as an Ophthalmic Surgeon and married Alice Esther Gilford, who qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1902 - she was an active supporter of the Suffragette Movement. As a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C., Moxon entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 August 1914. For his war services he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. With copied m.i.c.