Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: attributed to Captain S. S. Mair, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, killed in action, Malta, 18 April 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, all unnamed, extremely fine (3) £80-100

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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Stewart Stanley Mair was born in Glasgow on 4 June 1916, the only son of Captain W. Craig Mair who was killed in the Great War. Mair was educated at Shawlands Academy and at Glasgow University, where he graduated M.B. in 1939. After qualifying he went to sea as a ship’s surgeon and in May 1940, as a Temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., saw service in Norwegian waters, where his ship was sunk by air attack. On returning home he took up a house surgeon’s post at Gartlock Emergency Hospital until March 1941. He was then commissioned in the R.A.M.C. and in September 1941 was posted to Malta. He was killed in an air raid on 18 April 1942. He was buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta.

With medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mrs H. E. Mair, 19 Grantley Gdns., Glasgow, S.1’; condolence slip named to ‘Captain S.S. Mair’; together with some copied research including modern photographs of Mair’s gravestone. The medals, condolence slip and card box all set in a 25.5 x 25.5cm. glazed wooded frame.