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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 6

A Great War ´Egyptian Theatre´ O.B.E. Group of Four to Major W.W. Forbes, Royal Army Medical Corps a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer´s (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919) b) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. W.W. Forbes. R.A.M.C.) c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Major W.W. Forbes.), nearly extremely fine, together with a photograph of the Aberdonian (4) Estimate £ 200-250 O.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1919 T./Capt. William Wood Forbes, R.A.M.C. ´For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt.´ M.I.D. London Gazette 22.1.1919 Forbes, T./Capt. W.W., O.B.E., Army Medical Service and Royal Army Medical Corps ´For his service during the period from 16th March, 1918, to 18th September, 1918.´ Major William Wood Forbes, O.B.E., (1867-1926), born Stoke Damerel, Devon; educated at Edinburgh University; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 10.10.1914; served with the Medical Corps during the Great War in the Gallipoli theatre from 15.3.1915, on the staff of H.M. Hospital Ship Aberdonian; promoted Captain, 10.10.1915; Major, 29.5.1918

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