Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An inter-war O. St. J. group of three awarded to Dr. R. V. de A. Redwood, Centre Surgeon for Monmouthshire

The Venerable Order of St. John, Officer’s breast badge, silver; Coronation 1937; St. John Service Medal (12293Cen./Sgn. R. V. de Acton Redwood, Monmouthshire Cen., Priory for Wales, S.J.A.B., 1930), good very fine (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Robert Vachell de Acton Redwood, O. St. J., F.R.C.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., was appointed an Honorary Surgeon of the Rhymney Division (South Wales Border Corps) in February 1909. He was subsequently appointed Centre Surgeon for Monmouthshire in June 1933, in which capacity he was awarded the O. St. J. (London Gazette 25 June 1935, refers).