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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 17

A Great War ´Western Front´ D.S.O. Group of Seven to Colonel G.J.A. Ormsby, Royal Army Medical Corps
a) Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top-riband bar
b) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, five clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing´s Nek, Cape Colony, unofficial rivets between 4th and 5th clasps (Capt. G.J.A. Ormsby. R.A.M.C.), rank officially corrected
c) King´s South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Capt. G.J.A. Ormsby. M.D. R.A.M.C.)
d) 1914 Star, with copy Bar (Major G.J.A. Ormsby. R.A.M.C.)
e) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Col. G.J.A. Ormsby.)
f) General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (Bt. Col. G.J.A. Ormsby.), light contact marks, therefore generally very fine or better, mounted for wear, with the recipient´s related miniature awards, all housed in a Spink & Son leather case, this slightly distressed, surmounted with a small metal plate engraved ´G.J.A.O.´ (lot)

D.S.O. London Gazette 18.2.1915 Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby, M.D., Major, Royal Army Medical Corps
´For services in connection with operations in the field.´

Colonel Gilbert John Anthony Ormsby, D.S.O., M.D., born Dublin,1876, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Lambert H. Ormsby, Kt, Honorary Consulting Surgeon of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 28.1.1899; served during the Second Boer War, and was present in actions including Colenso and Spion Kop (´Cape Colony´ clasp unconfirmed); Captain 28.1.1902; Major 28.1.1911; served during the Great War on the Western Front, from 16.8.1914; Lieutenant-Colonel 1.3.1915, and was Temporary Colonel whilst serving as Assistant Director of Medical Services, July 1917-May 1918 (D.S.O.; M.I.D. London Gazette 17.2.1915, 24.12.1917, 25.5.1918 and 30.12.1918; Wounded); Brevet Colonel 3.6.1918, and served as A.D.M.S. (Acting Colonel) 34th Division, British Armies in France, 13.11.1918-28.10.1919; after serving in Mesopotamia was appointed A.D.M.S. HQ Basrah District, 1920; served in India 1922-1924.

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