Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Captain D. S. Buist, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Capt. D. S. Buist. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. D. S. Buist.); Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 1 clasp, Mongalla 1915-16, unnamed as issued; Order of the Nile, 3rd class neck badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamels, good very fine and very rare (5) £1,200-£1,500

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 October 1916 (Mongalla).

Order of the Nile, 4th Class London Gazette 31 August 1917.

Only 12 clasps for Mongalla 1915-16 issued to British recipients.

David Stirling Buist was born at Perth on 7 September 1884, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Perth Academy, MB ChB Ed 1907. He entered the Royal Army Medical Corps as a Lieutenant on 1 August 1908, and was promoted to Captain on 1 February 1912. He served in India 1911-13, and was seconded to the Egyptian Army 1913-20. He entered the war in Gallipoli, September to December 1915, and afterwards in the Sudan operations including Mongalla 1915-16 and Nyima 1917-18. Promoted to Major, 1 August 1920, he served in India 1924-28. He was placed on half-pay due to ill-health, 23 April 1929, and retired pay on 12 October 1929.

Sold with copied m.i.c. which confirms entitlement to Sudan Medal with clasps for Mongalla 1915-16 and Nyima 1917-18, the latter issued separately.