Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Boer War C.B. group of three to Major-General W. F. Stevenson, Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Surgeon to the King

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, swivel ring and straight bar suspension, with silver-gilt buckle on ribbon; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Belfast (Colonel, C.B., R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, unnamed, nearly extremely fine (3) £800-1000

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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Wiiliam Flack Stevenson was born in Dublin on 29 May 1844. Educated at Dublin University he gained the B.A., M.B. and M.Ch. In March 1866 he entered the Army Medical Service as an Assistant Surgeon on the Staff and with the Royal Artillery. He was promoted to Surgeon, March 1876, Surgeon-Major, March 1878, Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, March 1886 and Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1892 - during which time he served in the West Indies and India. During 1890-92 he was employed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Army Medical School, Netley and was Professor of Clinical and Military Surgery there during 1892-95. Stevenson was promoted to Surgeon Colonel in July 1896. In South Africa he held the temporary rank of Surgeon-General whilst P.M.O., Lines of Communication, 12 November 1899-5 February 1900; the temporary and local rank of Surgeon-General whilst P.M.O., Army H.Q., South Africa, 4 May 1900; temporary rank of Surgeon-General whilst employed at the Royal Army Medical College, 14 January 1903 and honorary rank of Surgeon-General, 16 July 1913. For his services in the Boer War he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 8 February 1901) and created a Companion of the Order of the Bath. In 1905 he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to King Edward VII. The author of Wounds in War, the Mechanism of their Production and their Treatment, 1910. He was re-employed in the Great War and died on 7 July 1922.