Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of five awarded to Wing Commander T. S. Rippon, Royal Air Force, late 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; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21 (Sqn-Ldr., A.F.I.) last officially re-impressed, mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £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.

Thomas Stanley Rippon was born in Warrington on 19 September 1883, the son of the Rev. Thomas Rippon. He studied Medicine at Bristol and the London Hospital and qualified as M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1911. During the Great War he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 29 December 1915. He was promoted to Captain in the R.A.M.C. in May 1916. For his wartime services as an Army Officer he was awarded the O.B.E. In November 1918 he was appointed a Captain in the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force and was advanced to Squadron Leader in August 1919 and Wing Commander in January 1925. After the war he served in the R.A.F. in India and Egypt and in 1923 he joined the research staff at Northolt aerodrome. During further overseas service he was elected vice-president of the Mesopotamia Branch of the B.M.A. After his retirement from the R.A.F. he became a member of the Naval and Military Committee and was for a time President of the Central Medical Board of the R.A.F. In civilian life he worked as an Assistant Physician to the Tavistock Clinic and Clinical Assistant at the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway and the Princess Beatrice Hospital, Earls Court. He was an author of several medical papers relating to flying. Rippon died on 4 October 1946. With a folder of copied research.