Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

St. Andrews University Prize Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Ophthalmology, John Primrose Douglas, 1929’, 52mm., bronze, in Alexander Kirkwood, Edinburgh case of issue, extremely fine £30-50

John Primrose Douglas was born in Perth on 22 February 1908 and was educated at Perth Academy and St. Andrew’s University, where he graduated in Medicine in 1930. He joined the R.A.M.C. in 1933. His first overseas posting was to Gibraltar, where in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, he treated two batches of naval casualties which were evacuated to the Military Hospital. For his services he was awarded the German Third Reich Order of the Red Cross in 1937 and the British M.B.E. in 1938. He served throughout W.W.2, being with the B.E.F. in France in 1940; then served at the War Office and in 1945 he was with 21 Army Group as A.D.M.S., then D.D.M.S., with the rank of Brigadier. His services brought him awards from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands and the U.S.A. In 1945 he was awarded the O.B.E. Attaining the rank of Major-General, he retired in 1968 and was honorary surgeon to the Queen, 1965-68 and Colonel Commandant of the R.A.M.C., 1970-73. He was awarded the C. St. J. in 1967 and C.B. in 1968. With copied research.