The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick

Five: Major D. S. B. Thomson, Royal Army Medical Corps and Sudan Political Service, who previously served under his father, Sir William Thomson, with the Irish Hospital in South Africa

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Drsr., Irish Hospital); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th Class breast badge by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, very fine (5) £600-800

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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Ex Mike Leahy Collection, D.N.W. 18 September 1998, lot 431.

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919, from Major-General Lee Stack, Governor-General, Sudan.

Order of the Nile, 3rd Class London Gazette 28 August 1925. ‘Major, Reserve of Officers, Commandant of Police’

Douglas Stoker Brownlee Thomson was born in Dublin on 29 April 1879. The son of Sir William Thomson, he accompanied his father to South Africa as a Dresser with the Irish Hospital. He was one of four Dressers with the hospital, all of whom were then medical students. He qualified in Dublin, M.B. D.P.H. 1904, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in January 1904 as a Lieutenant, and was promoted to Captain in 1907. In 1905 he joined the Egyptian Army and was later appointed medical officer on a commission investigating the kala-azar disease in the Sudan. In 1910 he left the Sudan Medical Department and became a junior inspector in the political service, being appointed Major on Half Pay in July 1915. Thomson Bey was commissioner at Port Sudan from 1928 to 1932, when he retired with the ranks of Miralai and Major. He died in 1939. For his father’s medals, see lot 56.