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№ 1393

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20 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£220

Chedhow Hall V.A.D. Hospital Medal, silver (hallmarks for Birmingham 1918) and enamel, the reverse inscribed ‘Lt. Col. H. Littlewood, C.M.G., Administrator’, with top brooch bar inscribed ‘1915-1919’; Bermondsey V.A.D. War Service Medal, silvered, the reverse inscribed ‘E. A. Baker (M/O)’, with top brooch bar ‘1918-19’ and slip bar ‘1914’, good very fine (2) £80-120

Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection of Awards to the Medical Services, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.

Harry Littlewood was born in Norfolk on 18 April 1861. He was educated at the University College London and University College Hospital. Appointed a L.R.C.P. (London) in 1884 and F.R.C.S. (Eng) in 1886 and received an Hon. M.Sc. from the University of Leeds. Gazetted to the R.A.M.C. (T.A.) as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, 2nd Northern Division General Hospital, Leeds, in 1908. Administrator of the 2nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds, 1915-19. Awarded the C.M.G. in 1917 and granted the rank of Brevet Colonel. Was Lord of the Manor of Hempstead, Norfolk and was Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Latterly Examiner in Surgery, University of Cambridge and Consulting Surgeon, General Infirmary, Leeds. Littlewood died on 19 December 1921. With copied research.

Elizabeth Adelaide Baker studied medicine at the Medical College for Women in Edinburgh. She qualified in 1892 with the triple Scottish diploma: L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. (Edin); L.F.P.S. (Glasgow). With some copied research.