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

Four: Captain C. H. Philips, South African Medical Corps, late Royal Army Medical Corps and Tanganyika Medical Service

British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); War and Africa Service Medals (253805 C. H. Philips); together with an unnamed 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal, good very fine and better (6) £120-160

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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Claude Hollingworth Philips qualified as a L.M.S.S.A. at the London Hospital in 1914. Commissioned a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. in January 1915, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 June 1915. He was promoted to Temporary Captain in January 1916; he relinquished his commission in November 1919 after service in India. In 1926 he joined the Tanganyika Medical Service and was stationed in Zanzibar for 16 years. During World War 2 he served in South Africa with the rank of Captain and remained there after the war, living in Port Elizabeth. He returned to England in the early 1960s and lived in Steyning, Sussex. Sold with copied research.