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

An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel A. Elliot, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Civil Sureon, Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knight of Grace set of insignia, neck badge and breast star, silver and enamel, in case of issue; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Civ. Surg., M.D., M.R.C.P., I.Y. Ho. Staff), last three clasps are copies; British War and Victory Medal, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); Defence; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1919, complete with top bar, mounted as worn, some contact marks on the Defence, generally good very fine (6) £600-700

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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M.I.D. London Gazette 10 July 1919.

Andrew Elliot qualified as a M.A. (Edinburgh) in 1884, M.D., C.M. in 1888 and M.R.C.P. London in 1902. During the Boer War he served as a Civil Surgeon in the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital Staff based at Deelfontein, Cape Colony, for which he was awarded the Queen’s medal with one clasp. Serving as a Major in the R.A.M.C. during the Great War, he retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.). Employed at the West London Hospital, he attained the position of Senior House Physician. Awarded the Order of St. John, Knight of Grace in June 1921. He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London.