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

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Quirke, Indian Medical Service

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (Captain, M.B., I.M.S.); 1914 Star (Capt., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaf (Major); Defence, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (5) £240-280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals Formed by The Late A. A. Mount.

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M.I.D. London Gazette 7 February 1919.

M. J. Quirke was born at Handsworth in 1879 and qualified as a M.B. and Ch.B. at Birmingham in 1901. Prior to his military service he was House Surgeon at Queen’s Hospital and a ship’s Surgeon on the Blue Funnel Line. A Lieutenant with the I.M.S. in 1904 and Captain in 1907, he took part in the Somaliland Expedition as Chief Medical Officer. He gained the Diploma of Tropical Medicine at London in 1907 and a Diploma of Public Health at Cambridge in 1913. Promoted Major in July 1913, he took part in the Mesopotamia Campaign during the First World War, serving for a time as Acting-Lieutenant-Colonel. On the Retired List in 1921, he transferred to the Indian Medical Service as Divisional Sanitary Commissioner and Inspector of Vaccination, Central Range. He was in practice at Felsted, Essex during 1926-30 and was Medical Officer of Health for Upton-upon-Severn Rural District, part-time, from 1932 to 1945. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard. Sold with M.I.D. Certificate and some service and career details.