Auction Catalogue

19 September 2003

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 69

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19 September 2003

Hammer Price:
£580

The Northern Nigeria campaign medal awarded to Doctor G. B. Norman, Northern Nigeria Medical Department

Africa General Service 1902-56
, 1 clasp, N. Nigeria 1904 (Doctor G. B. Norman, N.N.M.D.) good very fine £350-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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George Blake Norman was born in Oakham, Rutland, on 5 December 1875, son of Dr Alfred Blake Norman, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.M., of Oakham. He was educated at Oakham School, and at St John’s College, Cambridge, being admitted a pensioner there on 5 October 1894. He received his medical training at Cambridge, and at St Thomas’s Hospital; B.A. 1897; B.Chir. 1903, M.B. 1904.

Norman was appointed a Medical Officer in the Medical Department in Northern Nigeria on 13 August 1904. In that year he took part in the operations against the small tribes at the head of the Benne River around Yola, for which he received the medal and clasp.

Norman was promoted Senior Medical Officer in the Southern Provinces, Nigeria, in 1915, Senior Medical Officer of the Northern Provinces, Nigeria, in 1920, and Assistant Director of Medical Services on 1 January 1921. He retired on pension in September 1926, and returned to England, where the General Medical Council lost track of him and finally erased his name from the Register in 1952. Sold with full research.