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Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd

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№ 90

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13 January 2021

Hammer Price:
£1,000

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Rowse, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Major E. L. Rowse.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt. E. L. Rowse R.A.M.C.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1920, with integral top riband bar;
Serbia, Kingdom, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, Fifth Class breast badge, with swords, silver, silver-gilt; and enamel; together with the recipient’s British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross, with Medical Officer clasp (572 Lt. Col. E. L. Rowse), generally good very fine (6) £500-£700

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Provenance: Colonel D. G. B. Riddick Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006.

Serbian Order of the White Eagle
London Gazette 15 February 1917:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Edward Leopold Rowse trained at Charing Cross Hospital and qualified as a M.R.C.S. England, L.R.C.P. London 1890 and M.D., Brussels, 1893. During the Great War he was ranked a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., and was the Officer in Command of the Floriana and Ghain Tuffleha Hospitals, Malta, 1915-18. For his services during the war he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle Fifth Class by the Kingdom of Serbia. A member of the British Medical Association and British Homœopathic Society, he was at various times employed as a House Physician and Resident Obstetrics Officer, Charing Cross Hospital and House Physician, Consumption Hospital, Brompton. In the late 1920’s/early 1930’s his address was given as 143 Harley Street, W1.

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