Auction Catalogue

20 April 2022

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 236

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20 April 2022

Hammer Price:
£130

Pair: Surgeon Captain H. W. B. Shewell, O.B.E., Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Commr. H. W. B. Shewell. R.N.) nearly extremely fine (2) £70-£90

O.B.E. London Gazette 22 August 1919:
‘For services in H.M.S.
Euralus and at the R.N. Barracks, Portsmouth.’

Herbert Wells Bayly Shewell was born at Cheltenham in 1872. He was appointed to be Surgeon in the Royal Navy, following qualification, on 2 June 1898, and was advanced Staff Surgeon on 23 May 1906, and Fleet Surgeon on 22 May 1914. For his services during the Great War he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Advanced Surgeon Captain on 23 February 1923, he later served as a member of the Armed Forces Medical Board, and was involved with the A.R.P. during the Second World War in Melcombe Regis. He died in 1945.

Sold together with the recipient’s visiting card.