Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain D. B. Spence, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914 Star (Lieut: D. B. Spence. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. D. B. Spence.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt. D. B. Spence, R.A.M.C.) nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£240

Douglas Benham Spence was born in 1888, son of W. R. E. Spence, artist, of Guildford, Surrey. He was educated at Epsom College 1901-07, and afterwards at St Thomas’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. Eng., M.R.C.P. Lond. 1913. Served in France and Flanders as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 17 August 1914. He was promoted to Captain 31 August 1915, and was mentioned in Field-Marshal French’s despatch of 30 November 1915 (London Gazette 1 January 1916). Captain Spence relinquished his commission on 28 October 1919. He was afterwards a General Practitioner and retired to East Mersea, Essex. He died on 17 June 1963, aged 74.

Sold with copied research including Medal Index Card which confirms all four medals.