Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army Medical School Parkes Memorial Medal, by J.S. & A.B. Wyon, 51mm, bronze, the obverse featuring the head facing right, ‘Edmund Alexander Parkes, B.1819 - D.1876’; the reverse featuring a laurel wreath with ‘Army Medical School, Hygiene; Parkes Memorial Medal’ inscribed round and inside (Captain D. MacD. Fraser, I.M.S. April 1932.) in damaged case of issue; North Persian Forces Memorial Medal, 58mm, silver, the reverse inscribed ‘Presented by the Medical Officers N.P.F. 1921 awarded for the Best Contribution to Tropical Medicine during the Year 1924 to Captain William Hood Dye, R.A.M. Corps’, in Royal Mint case of issue, extremely fine (2) £60-80

Donald MacDonald Fraser was born on 4 November 1899 and trained as a doctor and surgeon in Glasgow. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1925, and was advanced Captain on 25 February 1927. He served as Agency Surgeon in South Waziristan and as Medical Officer with the South Waziristan Scouts. He retired with the rank of Brigadier.

The Parkes Memorial Medal for Hygiene was named after Dr Edmund Alexander Parkes, the first Professor of Hygiene at the Army Medical School.

William Hood Dye was born on 28 June 1889 and served during the Great War as a Dental Surgeon, being advanced Captain on 7 February 1917. He relinquished his commission on 16 April 1925.