Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (No. 194 Corpl. H. D. Usmar, M. Co. V.M.S.C.) worn; Serbian Red Cross Society of London Medal, 36mm., silver; Volunteer Medical Staff Corps Prize Medal, for ‘members of the Best Stretcher Party’, 25mm., silver; Army Temperance Association: Home Medal, A.T.A.H.2, for 1 years’ abstinence; Arnhem 50th Anniversary Medal 1994, in case of issue; Silver War Badge, stamped, ‘200176’ and engraved, ‘A. W. Handy’, lacking pin fitting; Overseas Service Badge, pin-backed; ANZAC 1915 lapel badge, bronze; British Red Cross Society War Commemorative Medal 1914-18, unnamed; Proficiency Cross (1214 Jean Rankin) with bar ‘Red Cross Nursing 1918’; Identity disk (A. Macaulay, 21880 R.A.M.C., C.E.); miscellaneous badges, medals and coins (11) nearly very fine and better except where stated (22) £50-70

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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H. D. Usmar is listed as a recipient of the Maidstone Typhoid Medal, and as a Serjeant in the Maidstone Company Royal Army Medical Corps he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal in 1909. With copied research.

With some copied research re. Jean Rankin.

The identity disk to Macaulay with Soldiers’ Small Book, named to ‘Allan MacAuley, 21860, R.A.M.C.’ - note different number and spelling of name; a number of photographs, including some of the recipient during the Great War; three other associated papers.