Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain R. D. Laurie, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1917, in Garrard, London, case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Capt. R. D. Laurie. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. D. Laurie. R.A.M.C.) the campaign awards all later issue, the VM struck on a thinner flan, good very fine (4) £120-£160

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Robert Douglas Laurie was born in Derby on 19 August 1886, the son of Alderman Dr. Robert Laurie, sometime Mayor of Derby, and was educated at Derby School and the University of Edinburgh, graduating M.B., Ch.B. in 1907. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 July 1915. Subsequently emigrating to South Africa, he died in February 1963.

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Note: The recipient’s Medal Index Card notes that the campaign medals were dispatched on 28 October 1955.