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

The K.C.M.G., O.B.E. group of six awarded to Sir William Thomas Prout, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, K.C.M.G. Knight Commander’s set of insignia, neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, slight enamel damage; breast star, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck cravat, in Garrards, London case of issue; Knight Bachelor’s Badge, 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1926; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.) good very fine (7) £900-1000

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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William Thomas Prout was educated at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1884. After qualifying he served as Assistant Poor Law Medical Officer, Mauritius, 1885; Assistant Colonial Surgeon, Gold Coast, 1888; District Commissioner, Gold Coast, 1890; Colonial Surgeon, Gambia, 1893; Acting Chief Magistrate, 1893; Medical Officer in charge of the base hospital during the campaign against the slaver Foday Sila, 1894; Principal Medical Officer, Sierra Leone, 1895, and was later a J.P. and Official Member of the Leglislative Council, Freetown. Latterly, he was Hon. Physician, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London; Hon Lecturer, School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool, Senior Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office, and Member of the Colonial Advisory Medical and Sanitary Committee. During the Great War he served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., serving in Egypt and was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 21 June 1916). Awarded the C.M.G. in 1905, O.B.E. in 1919, Knighted in 1924 and awarded the K.C.M.G. in 1928; he became a Fellow of the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Sir William Prout died in Lingfield, Surrey on 18 November 1939, aged 77 years. Sold with copied research.