Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain G. W. Buxton, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Memorial Plaque (Gurney White Buxton) virtually extremely fine (4) £300-350

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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Captain Gurney White Buxton, 1st/2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C., died of dysentery on 9 September 1915, aged 46 years, aboard the H.M.H.S. Guildford Castle. He had been serving in and invalided from Gallipoli. Captain Buxton was buried at sea; his name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Sold with 52 sheets of copied service papers, chiefly concerned with his effects; commemorative scroll and photograph (these mounted on board).