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

David Riddick

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№ 92

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7 March 2007

Hammer Price:
£250

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. L. A. Greaves, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medal, small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) about extremely fine (4) £200-250

O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919. ‘... for valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders’ ‘Capt. (A./Lieut.-Col.), R.A.M.C.(T.F.)’.

M.I.D.
London Gazette 30 December 1918. ‘Capt. (A. Lt.-Col.), F.R.C.S., No.74 Gen. Hosp.’

Francis Ley Augustus Greaves, M.R.C.S., 1897; L.R.C.P., London, 1897; F.R.C.S., 1902.