Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Great War C.B.E., D.S.O. group of seven to Colonel J. H. R. Bond, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with brooch bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (Capt., R.A.M.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (Capt., R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Col.) very fine and better (7) £1600-1800

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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C.B.E. London Gazette 3 March 1919.

D.S.O. London Gazette 25 August 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 August 1917, 12 March 1918, 30 April 1919, 5 June 1919.

James Henry Robinson Bond was born in Heathfield, Somerset on 21 July 1871. Qualifying as a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. London, he entered the R.A.M.C. as a Lieutenant in July 1899. During the Boer War he served in the relief of Ladysmith, including the operations of 17-24 January 1900, action at Spion Kop, operations of 5-7 February 1900, action at Vaal Kranz, operations on Tugela Heights and action on Pieters Hill. Then in Natal, March-June 1900, he saw action at Laing’s Nek; he then served for the remainder of the war in the Transvaal and Orange Free State. He was promoted to Captain in July 1902 and Major in July 1911, serving in India, 1902-05 and 1909-14. During the Great War he served with the B.E.F. in France, 1914-15 and then in Mesopotamia, 1915-19. Bond was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1915 and was Temporary Colonel, September 1917-April 1919 and was Assistant Director of Medical Services, 1917-19. For his wartime services he was awarded the C.B.E. and D.S.O. and was four times mentioned in despatches. He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1924 and ceased to be on the Reserve of Officers in 1926. Colonel Bond died at Cheltenham on 14 January 1943.