Miniature Medals

Eight: Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Greeson, K.B.E., C.B., Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Surg. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence & War Medals; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, generally very fine (8) £250-300

Clarence Edward Greeson was born on 28 November 1888, and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University, graduating in Medicine in 1910. He entered the Royal Naval Medical Service at the outbreak of the First World War and saw action at the battles of the Heligoland Bight, the Falkland Islands and Gallipoli. In 1927 he served in the Shanghai Defence Force with the 12th Battalion Royal Marines. During the Second World War he was Fleet Medical Officer, Mediterranean Fleet, and was present at the battle of Cape Matapan. Sir Edward was awarded the C.B. in 1945 for distinguished service throughout the war in Europe, and appointed Honorary Physician to the King in 1946. He became Medical Director-General of the Navy at the end of 1948, was made K.B.E. in 1950, and retired from the Royal Navy in 1952. He went to live in Alderney, Channel Islands, in 1973, and died there on 10 June 1979.