Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant C. V. Patrick, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (Surg. S. Lt., R.N.V.R.)

Pair: Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant J. H. Ewen, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (Surg. S. Lt., R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (4) £120-160

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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Conrad Vincent Patrick was appointed a Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant aboard H.M.S. Lurcher in August 1918. He studied medicine at Caius College, Cambridge and St. Thomas’s Hospital, graduating with the M.B., Ch.B. in 1923 and F.R.C.S. in 1924. Soon after he moved to Wolverhampton as Surgical Registrar to the Royal Hospital. He was later appointed Senior Surgeon in charge of the urology department there. He was also Surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Midland Counties Eye Infirmary; Lady Forester Hospitals and New Cross Hospital. He was a lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Birmingham. Patrick died in Wolverhampton on 7 July 1961.

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John Harold Ewen was born in Paddington, London. He became a student at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and joined the R.N.V.R. as a Surgeon Probationer in 1915, serving on H.M.S. Hornet. He later resumed his studies and obtained the conjoint diploma - M.R.C.S., Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. in 1918, becoming a Surgeon Lieutenant. Ewen later studied at Vienna, Berlin and the University of Edinburgh. In 1929 he gained the Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine and in 1929 the M.R.C.P. Edin. During the 1920’s he joined Netherne Mental Hospital at Coulsdon, Surrey and eventually became the Deputy Medical Superintendent.

During the Second World War he was Medical Superintendent of the Middlesex County Mental Hospital at Springfield and Lecturer in Pyschiatry at the Westminster Hospital. He died on 12 December 1960, aged 67 years.

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