Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Family group to brothers:

Three: Captain A. A. Geddes, No. 28 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Army Service Corps, died of disease on 5 July 1916

1914 Star, with clasp (2. Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with memorial plaque (Arthur Alexander Geddes); illuminated memorial scroll; and Buckingham Palace letter, all mounted on a blue velvet display board and contained in a contemporary glazed mahogany display frame

Three: Captain W. M. Geddes, Wiltshire Rgiment, killed in action at Loos on 27 September 1915

1914-15 Star (Capt., Wilts. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); together with memorial plaque (William Murray Geddes); illuminated memorial scroll; and Buckingham Palace letter, all contained in a matching frame to his brothers set, nearly extremely fine and better (8) £600-800

Arthur Alexander Geddes died of Malaria on 5 July 1916, contracted whilst on active service in Basra, whilst serving with No. 28 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Army Service Corps. He is buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery, and his name is on the Delhi War Memorial. The following quote by one of the doctors who attended him is extracted from The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny: ‘He was such a decent chap, and was as brave as man could be, yet knowing full well how ill he was.’

William Murray Geddes was killed in action in France and Flanders on 27 September 1915, whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. He is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France. The following quote by a brother officer is extracted from The Roll of Honour, by the Marquis de Ruvigny: ‘He was such a capital fellow and led his men, who loved him, so well, so gallantly. He was killed instantaneously, shot through the head, on the early morning of the 27th. He was just preparing to take his company across a fire-swept zone to support the Camerons. His body was taken back to Vermelles, and he was buried there by our Chaplain in a small military cemetery. Your son and his company had done such excellent work all the time.’