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

The C.I.E., O.B.E. group of eleven awarded to Colonel L. K. Ledger, Indian Medical Service, late Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; Order of St. John of Jerusalem (2), Commander’s neck badge, silver base metal and enamel; another, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel, this with minor enamel damage; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj., I.M.S.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Kurdistan (Capt.); War and India Service Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, some with slight contact marks, very fine and better (12) £800-900

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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C.I.E. London Gazette 12 June 1947.

O.B.E. London Gazette 9 June 1938.

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1920.

Lloyd Kirkwood Ledger was born on 27 May 1895, the son of Rev. C. G. Ledger of Hereford. Educated at Monmouth and London University he became a M.R.C.S., 1917 and L.R.C.P. London (St. Barts.), 1917, and gained a Diploma in Ophthamology at Oxford. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in August 1917 and was promoted to Captain in August 1918. He transferred to the I.M.S. as a Lieutenant in March 1920, becoming a Captain in November that same year and holding the rank of Acting Major, March 1921-September 1922. He served in Kurdistan with the R.A.M.C. during 1919, and on the N.W. Frontier of India with the I.M.S. during 1920-21. Ledger was promoted to Major in May 1929 and Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1937. Between the wars he was employed at the Imperial Service Hospital, Dehra Dun, United Provinces, 1923; a Civil Surgeon at Peshawur and Agency Surgeon at Khyber on the N.W. Frontier, 1925; Medical Officer and Extra-Ordinary Vice Consul at Sistan, Afghanistan, 1927; Agency Surgeon, Bundelkhand, Central Provinces, 1929; Acting Surgeon, Gilgit, N. Kashmir, 1932 and Civil Surgeon, Peshawar and Agency Surgeon, Khyber, 1936. During the war Ledger was employed as Civil Medical Officer, Nathiagali, thence Peshawar in 1941 and was then appointed Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and Director of Public Health, Central Provinces and Berar, 1943-47. He retired with the rank of Colonel in 1947 being awarded the C.I.E. for his services. Sold with copied research.