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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 293

Four: Lieutenant Colonel R.H.L Cordner, Royal Army Medical Corps
1914 Star (Capt: R.H.L. Cordner. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lt. Col. R.H.L. Cordner); General Service 1918-62, G.V.R., one clasp, Iraq (Major R.H.L. Cordner), very fine or better, mounted as originally worn (4)

M.I.D. London Gazette 4.1.1917 Maj. (temp. Lt.-Col.) R.H.L. Cordner Royal Army Medical Corps

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Harry Lucas Cordner (1878-1967), born Mussoorie, India, 1878; educated at Dulwich College; qualified at St. George's Hospital, London, 1903; Assistant House Surgeon, Devon & Exeter Hospital and Junior House Surgeon, Birkenhead 1903-4; commissioned Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 30.7.1904; promoted Captain 1908; served during the Great War in the French theatre of war, from 11.8.1914 (MIC gives ineligible for Bar); advanced Lieutenant Colonel 26.12.1917; served as Senior Medical Officer, West Africa Command, 1918-19; served in Mesopotamia from 1920-21, from where he was invalided; later postings included the Rhine and at Shanghai; a Specialist in Physical Training; Lieutenant Colonel Cordner died at the Royal Pier Hotel, Weston Super Mare.

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