Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Chedhow Hall V.A.D. Hospital Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Lt. Col. H. Littlewood, C.M.G., Administrator’, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1918, with brooch bar inscribed, ‘1915-1919’; Bermondsey V.A.D. War Service Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘E. A. Baker (M/O)’, base silver metal, with brooch bar ‘1918-19’ and slip bar ‘1914’, good very fine (2) £60-80

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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Harry Littlewood was born in Norfolk on 18 April 1861. He was educated at the University College London and University College Hospital. Appointed a L.R.C.P. (London) in 1884 and F.R.C.S. (Eng) in 1886 and received an Hon. M.Sc. from the University of Leeds. Gazetted to the R.A.M.C. (T.A.) as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, 2nd Northern Division General Hospital, Leeds, in 1908. Administrator of the 2nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds, 1915-19. Awarded the C.M.G. in 1917 and granted the rank of Brevet Colonel. Was Lord of the Manor of Hempstead, Norfolk and was Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Latterly Examiner in Surgery, University of Cambridge and Consulting Surgeon, General Infirmary, Leeds. Littlewood died on 19 December 1921. With copied research.

Elizabeth Adelaide Baker studied medicine at the Medical College for Women in Edinburgh. She qualified in 1892 with the triple Scottish diploma: L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. (Edin); L.F.P.S. (Glasgow). With some copied research.