Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Major G. M. Dobson, Royal Army Medical Corps

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (Surgn., M.B., Med. Staff); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Lushai 1889-92 (Surgn. Capt., M.B., Army Medl. Staff); Khedive’s Star 1884-6, unnamed, slight edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (3) £650-750

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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George Margill Dobson was born on 11 April 1861. After qualifying as a M.B. he entered the Army in January 1885 as a Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon-Captain, in the Medical Staff Corps. With them he served in the Sudan campaign, 1885-86 and in Lushai, 1892. Promoted to Surgeon-Major in March 1897, he was placed on Retired Pay in 1905. He was employed when on the Retired List at Shrewsbury, 1908-09 and re-employed in the R.A.M.C. during the Great War.