Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Bridges, Royal Army Medical Corps
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Lt.Col.) nearly extremely fine (4)

D.S.O. London Gazette 4 June, 1917.
Roland Harley Bridges was educated at Clevedon; blundell’s School and St. Thomas’s Hospital where he took his degrees in 1902. He joined the R.A.M.C. in 1903, becoming Captain in 1906, and Major in 1914. He served five years in India, returned to England in 1909, and at the outbreak of war took command of training camps at Hounslow and Eastbourne, afterwards going in the yacht Liberty on a six months’ tour of inspection to the Dardanelles and Mediterranean. He subsequently went to Egypt on the Headquarters Staff, and in September 1917, became Commandant of the Military Hospital at Helouan. He accompanied the Duke of Connaught as M.O. up the Nile and to Palestine. At his own request he was transferred to a unit at the front, and was commanding a combined Indian field ambulance when he was drowned while bathing at Jaffa, in Palestine, 22 August, 1918. He was twice mentioned in despatches.