The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Four: Surgeon-Captain E. W. St. Vincent-Ryan, 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, who served as Medical Officer of the Infantry Battalion, C.I.V., and died of tuberculosis contracted at Cremona on the Italian Front in 1918

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Sgn: Capt. E. W. St. V. Ryan. C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. E. W. St. Vincent-Ryan; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (4) £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

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Edmond William St. Vincent-Ryan was born in 1861. He served in the 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Volunteers, ranked Surgeon Captain in 1898, and proceeded to South Africa in that rank in 1900 with the City of London Imperial Volunteers on S.S. Gaul. Although he was officially Medical Officer of the Infantry Battalion During the Boer War, he in fact served with the Mounted Infantry.

St. Vincent-Ryan was promoted Major in the Territorial Force in 1908 and served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially in Malta, from September 1914 until March 1916, being promoted Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 November 1914. He served in Salonika from June 1916 to November 1917 and then with the Italian Expeditionary Force on the Italian Front until June 1918. Diagnosed with Tuberculosis at Cremona on 3 April 1918, he died at Pendyffryn Hall Sanitorium, Dwygyfylich, Wales on 24 August 1919.