Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel A. E. Drynan, Royal Army Medial Corps, who died on active service in the B.E.F. in February 1940

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star, naming erased; British War Medal 1914-20, naming erased; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Major A. E. Drynan); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., coinage bust (Inspr. Alexander E. Drynan), generally very fine or better (7) £500-600

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Alexander Erskine Drynan was born in Edinburgh in June 1886, the son of Alexander Blain and Grace Drynan. Having qualified in medicine in his home city, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in October 1914. Embarked for France in March 1915, he attained the acting rank of Major in March 1918 and was awarded the M.C.; post-war, prior to being invalided from the service in December 1922, he served in Egypt and Turkey.

Having then established an extensive private practice in Brighton, where he was also well-known for his work at The Royal Sussex County Hospital and undertook a great amount of voluntary medical work, Drynan joined the Territorials in December 1937. It was in this capacity, as a Colonel with command of No. 21 General Hospital, that he served with the B.E.F. in France, up until his sudden death on account of blood poisoning on 14 February 1940. He left a widow, Dorothy Annie Drynan, and was buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen; sold with two original portrait photographs and a newspaper obituary notice.