Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain G. D. Shann, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Lieut. G. D. Shann. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. D. Shann.), mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £70-£90

Gerald Davenant Shann was educated at King’s College and St George’s and was commissioned a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 15 February 1915, serving during the Great War on the Western Front from 30 April 1915. In civil life, he was a member of the Oxford Medical Board; Medical Officer of Heath, Gipping, R.D., East Suffolk; Honorary Physician, Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea; and Resident Medical Officer, King’s Lynn Hospital (The Medical Directory, refers).