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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 16

A Good Great War 1918 'Battle of Ramicourt' M.C. Group of Four to Major G.S. Brown, Royal Army Medical Corps, Attached Leicestershire Regiment
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) 1914 Star (Lieut. G.S. Brown. R.A.M.C.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (Major G.S. Brown.), very fine (4)

M.C. London Gazette 8.3.1919 T./Capt. Gavin Stiell Brown, M.B., R.A.M.C., attd. 1/4th Bn., Leic. R., T.F.
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty whilst tending the wounded on the morning of the attack of 29th September, 1918, near Bellenglise, under very heavy shell fire. He showed an absolute disregard for personal danger, both at that time and subsequently during the action.'

Major Gavin Stiell Brown, M.C., educated at Edinburgh University; after a period in General Medical Practice he held hospital appointments in Birmingham; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, August 1914; promoted Captain, August 1915; Major, November 1918; awarded the Military Cross for tending the wounded during the Battle of Ramicourt, September to October 1918, whilst attached to the 13th General Hospital, Boulogne.

After the Great War Brown went into private practice in Hull, and was ultimately consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Hull group of hospitals. He was also an early pioneer of the Flying Squad, and was for many years the sole medical member of the Hull squad (recipient's obituary in the British Medical Journal refers). He died in February 1976.

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