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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 269

Miniature Awards: The C.B., C.M.G. Group of Nine Attributed to Major-General S. MacDonald, Royal Army Medical Corps The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion´s (C.B.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1895-1902, V.R., one clasp, Tirah 1897-8; Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, two clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star; British War and Victory Medals; Coronation 1911; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with bronze palm on riband, good very fine, mounted as originally worn (9) Estimate £ 300-350 C.B. London Gazette 3.6.1918 Col. Stuart Macdonald, C.M.G., M.B., Army Med. Serv. ´For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders C.M.G. London Gazette 14.1.1916 Colonel Stuart Macdonald, M.B., Army Medical Service ´For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Field.´ France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 2.6.1917 Colonel Stuart Macdonald, C.M.G., Army Medical Service ´For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.´ Major-General Stuart MacDonald, C.B., C.M.G., (1861-1939), born Elgin; educated at Aberdeen University; appointed Surgeon, Army Medical Service, February 1887; served on the North West Frontier between 1897-98 when he was variously attached to the Turak and Tirah Expeditionary Forces; advanced Major, February 1899, and served in South Africa; served with the Medical Corps on the Western Front from 9.8.1914, and was Commanding Officer of No.1 General Hospital between October 1914 and April 1916; Appointed Deputy Director of Medical Services, November 1916 (five times Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 17.2.1915, 1.1.1916, 4.1.1917, 24.12.1917, and 25.5.1918). Appointed Hon. Physician to H.M. the King, 1919, and was placed on the retired list with the rank of Major-General, 1920. Provenance: Spink, 11.5.2001 (when sold alongside the full-size group)

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