Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O., O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Monteith, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obverse centre depressed; 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 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, very fine and better (8) £1200-1600

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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D.S.O. London Gazette 15 September 1915. ‘Capt., Royal Army Medical Corps (attached 2nd Battn. The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry)’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in picking up and attending to the wounded under heavy fire in the actions near St. Jean and Wieltje, east of Ypres, between 23 and 27 April, 1915, when the casualties in the battalion to which he was attached were very heavy.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916; 10 July 1919.

Hugh Glencairn Monteith was born on 11 May 1883, the son of the Rev. John Monteith, of Moniave-Glenluiart, Dumfriesshire. He was educated at Fettes College and Pembroke College, Cambridge for the medical profession and joined the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant in July 1910, being promoted to Captain in January 1914. For his wartime services he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. and O.B.E. He played rugby for Cambridge, the London Hospital and for Scotland.