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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 146

Four: Major R.D. O'Leary, Surrey Home Guard, Late Royal Army Medical Corps
1914 Star (Lieut: R.D. O'Leary. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R.D. O'Leary.); Bulgaria, Kingdom, Order of National Merit, Civil Division, Knight's breast Badge, 70mm including crown suspension x 47mm, silver and enamel, in box of issue, nearly extremely fine, with the recipient's British Red Cross Society Medal for the Balkan War 1912-13, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1912) and enamel, the reverse named 'Dr. Ralph D. O'Leary.', with 'Bulgaria' clasp and 'Balkan War 1912-13' top riband bar, in box of issue; Bulgarian Commemorative Cross of Queen Eleanora, silver and enamel; and Bulgarian Red Cross Badge, gilt and enamel, in box of issue, with two named card boxes of issue for the Great War medals (4)

Major Ralph Daniel O'Leary, educated at Melbourne University; employed as a medical superintendent at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich; joined a Red Cross Unit serving in the 1912-13 Balkan War; Commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps; served during the Great War on the Western Front from 19.11.1914, and in Hospital Ship Oxfordshire; subsequently served as Medical Officer with 9th (Oxted) Battalion, Surrey Home Guard; died, 29.4.1946, before claiming his Defence Medal.

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