Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Civil C.B.E. group of four to Lieutenant T. E. A. Stowell, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat and evening collar, in case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut); British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18, unnamed, complete with brooch bar, nearly extremely fine (12) £260-300

C.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1949. ‘For services to Industrial Medicine’.

Thomas Edmund Alexander, educated at St. Paul’s, St. Thomas’ Hospital (Tite Scholar) and numerous other establishments. Granted the M.R.C.S. Eng. 1910, L.R.C.P. London 1910, F.R.C.P. Eng. 1912 and M.D. Durham 1927. First registered on 24 May 1910. A Surgeon with the B.E.F., he was granted the rank of Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 27 March 1917 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 12 April 1917. In later life, amongst his numerous appiontments, he was the Chief Medical Officer for I.C.I.; Lecturer at the London School of Economics, Universtity of London; Hon. Surgeon Victoria Infirmary, Northwich; Senior Hon. Surgeon and Radiologist Mid-Cheshire Orthopædic Clinic, Northwich; Surgeon, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup; Chairman of the Council of Industrial Medicine; Chairman of the British Committee of International Congresses on Industrial Health and Safety; Lecturer and Examiner, St. John’s Ambulance Association and British Red Cross Society and member of the House of Laity in the National Church Assembly. Awarded the C.B.E. in 1949; he was appointed a F.R.S.M. and F.R.I.P.H.H. He died on 8 November 1970.

Sold together with a mounted set of eight miniature dress medals: Order of the British Empire, C.B.E., 2nd type, Civil; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18, with top bar; Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn, in leather case. Sold with copied research.