Auction Catalogue

4 April 2001

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 1001

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4 April 2001

Hammer Price:
£600

A C.M.G. group of six awarded to Colonel W. L. Gray, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Surgn. Capt., A.M.S.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Major, M.B., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.) the last five mounted as worn, generally good very fine (6) £500-600

William Lewis Gray was born in London on 17 July 1864, second son of Alexander Gray, M.D., of Selby. He was educated at Glasgow, where he graduated as M.B. and C.M. in 1885, and at Edinburgh, where he took the B.Sc. in Public Health in 1888. Entering the Army as Surgeon in February 1887, he attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in August 1911, and Colonel in March 1915. He served on the Anglo-Siamese Boundary Commission of 1889-90; on the Kieuglung-Chienghai mission of 1890-91; in the Chitral campaign on the North West Frontier of India in 1895, when he took part in the relief of Chitral (Medal and Clasp); in South Africa in 1900-01, in operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony (despatches London Gazette 16 April 1901, Queen’s Medal with 4 clasps); and in the war of 1914-18 (despatches London Gazette 15 June 1916 and 4 January 1917), and received the C.M.G. in 1917. He died of pneumonia at Hythe on 3 November 1924.