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

An O.B.E., Order of St. John group of ten awarded to Major C. E. Goddard, Royal Army Medical Corps and Police Ambulance Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for 1919; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, silver; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major); Jubilee 1897, Police Ambulance Service (Surg. Lieut., 9th M. & R.V.); Coronation 1911, Police Ambulance Service (Dr.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1917, lacks top bar; St. John Service Medal, silver (3030 D. Surg., No.11 Wembley & Harlsdn. Div. No.1 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1925); together with a British Red Cross Society War Service 1914-18 (N. Chambers), complete with top bar, good very fine and better (11) £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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O.B.E. London Gazette

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 June 1915.

Charles Ernest Goddard qualified as a L.R.C.P. and M.R.C.S., King’s College, 1883 and M.D., Durham, 1900. Medical Officer of Health for Harrow and Wembley and Honorary Consultant Physician to Wembley Hospital. During the Great War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C., C.O. 2nd London Sanitary Company, attached (Sanitary Duties) 1st Cavalry Division, 1914-15. A Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, a Fellow of the Eugenics Society and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health; he was Medical Officer of Health for the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley; Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services at the Ministry of National Service and was President and Senior Chairman of the City of London Medical Brigades. See lot 713 for the recipient’s miniature medals.