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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 60

A Great War 1916 'Western Front' M.C. Group of Four to Captain H.S. Turner, Royal Army Medical Corps
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) 1914-15 Star (Lieut. H.S. Turner. R.A.M.C.)
c) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves [for riband bar wear] (Capt. H.S. Turner.), good very fine, mounted as originally worn (4)

M.C. London Gazette 11.12.1916 Temp. Capt. Henry Strawson Turner, R.A.M.C.
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led stretcher parties and tended the wounded under intense fire. On one occasion he rescued eight wounded men in the open.'

M.I.D. London Gazette 24.12.1917 Turner, Temp. Capt. H.S., M.C. R.A.M.C.

Captain Henry Strawson Turner, M.C., educated King's College Hospital, London; served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps on the Western Front from 28.9.1915; after the war had a practice at 12, Half Moon Street and 12, Shepherd Market, Mayfair and was still in these premises in 1942; Chairman of the Pensions Board; Member of the B.M.A.; Medical Superintendent Chillagoe General Hospital, Queensland, Australia.

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