Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Medical Medals awarded to Major A. Dingwall-Fordyce, Royal Army Medical Corps
Edinburgh University Prize Medals (3), 52mm, bronze, named ‘Practice of Physic, 1896-97, A. Dingwall Fordyce’; ‘Mental Diseases, 1897, A. Dingwall Fordyce’; and ‘Medicine, 1897-98, A. Dingwall Fordyce’ respectively; Edinburgh University Mouat Medal, 58mm, bronze, named ‘A. Dingwall Fordyce, 1898’, generally very fine (4) £80-£100

Alexander Dingwall-Fordyce was born in Edinburgh in 1875 and qualified in medicine from Edinburgh Academy in 1898. He studied in Vienna, Berlin and Paris, and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh in 1903. A pioneer pædiatric physician, he was appointed assistant physician to the Children’s Hospital, Edinburgh in 1906, and served during the Great War in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Salonika from October 1915. He was honorary physician to the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, 1920-35. He died in 1940.

The Dingwall-Fordyce family, whose seat was Brucklay Castle, Aberdeenshire, is descended from Margaret, daughter of Robert the Bruce. The Castle and two neighbouring fields were requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence in 1941 as a prisoner-of-war camp and to house displaced Polish soldiers, which was decommissioned in 1947.

Sold together with an iron nameplate inscribed ‘Captn. D. Fordyce of Brucklay, No. 4’, 240mm x 116mm; ands copied research.