Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. C. B. C. Anderson.) very fine £60-£80

O.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938.

Charles Bevan Carew Anderson was born in Rawalpindi, India, on 12 April 1894, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Anderson, and was educated at Bedford School and Edinburgh University, graduating as a Bachelor of Medicine in 1916. Appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 12 July 1916, and served with them during the Great War, and in Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War, and was promoted Captain on 12 January 1920, and Major on 12 July 1928.

Appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1938, Anderson served during the Second World War with the British Expeditionary Force in France; in North Africa; and in Italy. He was advanced Colonel on 5 August 1942, and for his services as Commanding Officer of 93 General Hospital was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 11 January 1945). He relinquished his commission on 12 April 1949.

Most unusually, in addition to his British Medals, Anderson also received a German Red Cross Decoration, for his services in the Deutschland Incident in 1937.

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