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Three: Acting Sergeant L. Hill, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died on the Western Front on 5 February 1917
1914-15 Star (46895 Pte. L. Hill. R.A.M.C); British War and Victory Medals (46895 A. Sjt. L. Hill. R.A.M.C.) good very fine
Pair: Captain A. Cambell, Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. Cambell.) mounted as worn, good very fine
Pair: Captain T. H. Tranter, Army Veterinary Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. H. Tranter) very fine (7) £80-£120
Leonard Hill attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with the 1st General Hospital during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 December 1914. He died on 5 February 1917, and is buried at the Etretat Churchyard Extension, France.
Sold with original Record Office enclosures.
Archibald Cambell was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 and served during the Great War on the Western Front from 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star). He ‘developed a great ability in dealing with venereal diseases’, and post-war was medical officer in charge of the venereal clinic of the Royal Hospital, Portsmouth. (Recipient’s obituary in the British Medical Journal, refers).
T. H. Tranter was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1921.
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