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Auction: 14002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 49

A Great War 1918 'Egyptian Theatre' C.B., 1916 'Mediterranean Theatre' C.M.G. Group of Seven to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H.L. Eason, Royal Army Medical Corps, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Forces in the Mediterranean and Egypt, and Later President of the British Medical Council and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London
a) The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Military Division, Companion's (C.B.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with short section of neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue
b) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion's (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue
c) 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. H.L. Eason. R.A.M.C.)
d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. H.L. Eason.)
e) Jubilee 1935
f) Coronation 1937, good very fine or better, mounted as worn and housed in a Gaunt, London, case, together with the related miniature awards, the miniature C.B. lacking centre (7)

C.B. London Gazette 1.1.1919 T./Lt.-Col. Herbert Lightfoot Eason, C.M.G., M.D., R.A.M.C.
'For valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt.'

C.M.G. London Gazette 1.1.1917 Temp. Lt.-Col. Herbert Lightfoot Eason, M.D., R.A.M.C.
'For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Field.'

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Herbert Lightfoot Eason, C.B., C.M.G., (1874-1949), educated at University College, London, and Guy's Hospital; Commissioned Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, 13.9.1915, and served with the Corps during the Great War as Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Forces in the Mediterranean and Egypt, 1915-19; after the War appointed Superintendent and Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon at Guy's Hospital; Dean of the Medical School and Warden of University College, London; Vice-Chancellor, University of London, 1935-37; Principal, University of London, 1937-41; and President of the General Medical Council; knighted for his services to medicine, June 1943.

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