Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A military O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Acting Colonel J. G. McCrie, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated, ‘1947’; Voluntary Medical Service Medal (Dr. John Gibb McCrie) mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (7) £300-360

John Gibb McCrie was born on 24 November 1902 and was educated at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh. He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he graduated with first class honours. After house appointments he became a lecturer in Medicine and Assistant Physician to the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant--Colonel with the R.A.M.C., seeing service with the B.E.F. and in North Africa and the Mediterranean. In 1948 he was appointed the first full-time Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheffield and served 20 years in that position. On his retirement in 1968 the Nottingham Medical School appointed him part-time Associate Dean, a post he held until 1976. He was in addition President of the South Yorkshire branch of the British Red Cross Society. He died on 24 January 1977.