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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 56

A Fine 1898 'Sudan' C.B., 1901 'South Africa' C.M.G. Group of Eight to Surgeon-General W.H. McNamara, Royal Army Medical Corps, Principal Medical Officer in Both the Sudan and South Africa
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with top-riband buckle
b) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion's (C.M.G.) breast Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage, with top-riband buckle, in Garrard & Co. ltd case of issue
c) Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Surgn Maj: W.H. McNamara A.M. Dept.)
d) Queen's Sudan 1896-98 (Lt. Col: W.H. McNamara. R.A.M.C.)
e) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Cape Colony (Surgn: Genl: W.H. McNamara, M.D., C.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.)
f) King's South Africa 1901-02, two clasps (Surg: Genl. W.H. McNamara, M.D., C.B., C.M.G., R.A.M.C.)
g) Khedive's Star 1882, unnamed as issued
h) Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, two clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (Colonel W.H. McNamara. R.A.M.C.), contemporarily engraved in sloping sans-serif capitals, light contact marks overall, therefore generally very fine (8)

C.B. London Gazette 15.11.1898 Colonel William Henry McNamara, M.D., Royal Army Medical Corps
'In recognition of services in Egypt and the Sudan, including the Battles of Atbara and Khartum.'

C.M.G. London Gazette Colonel William Henry McNamara, M.D., F.R.C.S.I., C.B.
'In recognition of services in South Africa'

Surgeon-General William Henry McNamara, C.B., C.M.G. (1846-1915), born Corbally, Limerick, Ireland; educated at Queen's College Cork and Ledwich School of Medicine, Dublin; qualified as M.D. at Queen's University of Ireland, 1867; appointed Surgeon, Army Medical Department, later the same year; posted for service with the 106th Foot, 1868; Surgeon Major 1879, 'he served in the Egyptian war of 1882, with the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers... In the Nile expedition of 1898 he served as Principal Medical Officer at first of the British brigade, afterwards of the British division, was present in the actions of the Atbara river and of Omdurman, was mentioned in dispatches in the London Gazette of May 24th and September 30th, 1898... In South Africa he served from 1899 to 1902, at first as Assistant Principal Medical Officer afterwards as Principal Medical Officer of the lines of communication, was mentioned in the London Gazette of April 16th, 1901 and July 29th, 1902' (British Medical Journal, Obituary refers); made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 1881; advanced Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, 1893; granted local rank of Surgeon-General whilst acting as Principal Medical Officer in South Africa from, 17.4.1900; retired 1905; and lived in Ealing for the latter part of his life.

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