Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Temporary Colonel E. C. Lambkin, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar, obv centre depressed and with signs of adhesive; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Defence and War Medals, good very fine except where stated (6) £900-1100

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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D.S.O. London Gazette 11 April 1918. ‘... in connection with military operations culminating in the capture of Jerusalem’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 June 1916, 7 October 1918.

Ernest Charles Lambkin was born at Donnybrook, Co. Dublin on 9 August 1884. Gaining the M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. and L.M. at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, he entered the Army as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in January 1909 and was promoted to Captain in July 1912, serving in Hong Kong during 1911-15. During the Great War, he was in Egypt, May 1915-March 1916 and was with the Egypt Expeditionary Force, March 1916-October 1918. During July 1917-May 1918 he was ranked as Acting Lieutenant-Colonel and during June 1918-December 1919 he was Acting Major. He was C.O. of the 147th Field Ambulance, 1917-18. For his services with the E.E.F. he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Post-war, he was promoted to Major in January 1921. He was placed on Retired Pay and granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1931. He ceased to be a member of the Reserve of Officers in August 1939 but rejoined during the following month, becoming the C.O. of the Military Hospital at Holywood, Northern Ireland, 1939-44. He was appointed Acting Colonel in February 1944 and Temporary Colonel in August 1944. Lambkin reverted to Retired Pay in August 1945 and died at at Liskillen, Co. Dublin on 4 December 1958. He was a specialist in dermatology and venereal disease.

Sold with copied research and a photograph.