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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 57

A '1937' Military Division C.B., Great War O.B.E. Group of Nine to Major-General H.M.J. Perry, Royal Army Medical Corps, Taken POW During the Great War, He Returned to Command 65 Field Ambulance, 1915-16; Assistant Advisor of Pathology B.E.F., 1916-18; Honorary Surgeon to the King, 1933-40, and Served as Director of Pathology, War Office, 1939-41
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel
b) 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)
c) 1914 Star, with Bar (Capt. H.M.J. Perry, R.A.M.C.), unit double-struck
d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Major H.M.J. Perry.)
e) Defence and War Medals
e) Jubilee 1935
f) Coronation 1937, light contact marks throughout, generally very fine, with cloth and medal insignia (lot)

C.B. London Gazette 11.5.1937 Major-General Henry Marrian Joseph Perry, O.B.E., (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Hononary Surgeon to the King, Director and Professor of Pathology, Royal Army Medical Corps

O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Capt. Henry Marrian Joseph Perry, R.A.M.C.

Major-General Henry Marrian Joseph Perry, C.B., O.B.E. (1884-1955), born Cork, Ireland; educated at Queen's College Cork; gained LRCP&SI, LM in 1906; commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 28.1.1907; served in Hong Kong, 1908-11; Captain 28.8.1910; served during the Great War on the Western Front, from 14.8.1914; taken Prisoner-of-War he returned to the Western Front the following year, and commanded 65 Field Ambulance, 1915-16; served as Temporary Major, 18.9.1915-18.1.1916; Assistant Advisor in Pathology, British Expeditionary Force, 1916-18 (M.I.D. London Gazette 1.1.1916, 30.12.1918 and 10.7.1919); held various post-war positions at the Royal Army Medical College, including as Director and Professor of Pathology; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 9.2.1921; seconded Egyptian Government, 1926-30; Honorary Surgeon to the King,1933-40; Colonel 28.12.1934; advanced Major-General 26.9.1935; served as Director of Pathology, War Office, 1939-41; retired pay 25.6.1941; ceased Reserve of Officers, 11.3.1951; in later life resided at Burwood Park Cottage, Burwood Park, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

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