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

The fine C.B., Second World War C.B.E., inter-war D.S.O. group of fourteen awarded to Major-General S. Arnott, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.VI.R., suspension bar officially dated ‘1938’, with top bar; 1914 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col., D.S.O., R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Coronation 1937; Egypt, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast badge, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, rosette on ribbon, some enamel damage, centres slack; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, 2nd issue, 2 clasps, Nyima 1917-18, Aliab Dinka, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine and better (14) £3500-4000

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.B. London Gazette 1 January 1948.

C.B.E. London Gazette 24 August 1944.

D.S.O. London Gazette 16 August 1938.

M.I.D. London Gazette 18 February 1938, 16 August 1938, 20 December 1940.

Stanley Arnott was born on 16 December 1888 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He qualified at Edinburgh with the M.B., Ch.B. in 1913 and M.D. 1920. Entering the Army as a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 9 August 1914, he was promoted to Temporary Captain in August 1915. He gained the permanent army commission of Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) in January 1917 and was promoted to Captain in February 1918. Arnott served with the B.E.F. in France, 1914-15 and then in Egypt, 1915-20. He served with the E.E.F., 1916-17, was seconded to the Egyptian Army, 1917-20 and served in Sudan, 1917 and 1919-20. For his services he was awarded the Egyptian Order of the Nile and the Khedive’s Sudan medal. Promoted to Major in August 1926 and Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1936, he served in India, 1925-30 and 1933-39, and was the C.O. of B.M.H. Ferozepore, 1937-38, the C.O. 4 Field Ambulance, Waziristan in 1937 and C.O. B.M.H. Ambala, 1938-39. For his services in India he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. With the onset of the Second World War he served with the B.E.F. in France as C.O. 5 Field Ambulance, 1939-40. He was then A.D.M.S. H.Q. 4 Division, 1940; A.D.G.A.M.S. War Office, 1941 and D.D.G.A.M.S. (Admin.) War Office, 1942-43. Posted then to the M.E.F., he was D.D.M.S. H.Q. 13 Corps, 1943-45. By the end of the war he had attained the rank of Acting Major-General and had been mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.B.E. Post-war he served in India as D.D.M.S. H.Q. Southern Army Command, 1945-47 and then as P.S.M.B. at the War Office, 1947-48. Awarded the C.B. in 1948, he was placed on Retired Pay with the honorary rank of Major-General on 15 April 1949. After retirement from the Army he was Medical Superintendent of the Borders Hospitals Board of Management and was County Director and Hon. Secretary of the City of Edinburgh branch of the British Red Cross Society, 1956-64. Major-General Arnott died on 27 October 1972.