Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Indian Medical Service Prize for Pathology Medal, 45mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the bust of Surgeon General Sir Joseph Fayrer Bart, K.C.S.I., F.R.S. (Lieutenant B. F. Beatson, I.M.S. April 1914) in Spink, London fitted case of issue, edge bruise, nearly extremely fine £30-40

Provenance: Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013.

Basil Fraser Beatson was born in Paddington on 7 April 1890. He qualified in medicine as M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1912 and, joining the Indian Medical Service in 1914, was awarded the Fayrer Prize in Pathology that year. Attaining the rank of Captain in March 1915, he served in the Great War and in Persia, 1918-19. In October 1922 he transferred to the Royal Air Force as a Temporary Lieutenant, and was advanced to Squadron Leader in January 1924. He retired from the Royal Air Force in October 1946 and died on 6 December 1971.