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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 385

(x) The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Gaskell, K.C.B., O.B.E., Royal Navy

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, badge, gold, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, (O.B.E.), Military Division, Officer's 1st type, silver-gilt; The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, badge, silver and enamel; China 1900, no clasp; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20, 5 clasps, North Sea 1914, North Sea 1915, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Landings, Gallipoli; Victory Medal 1914-19, mounted on Gaunt, Montreal wearing bar, sometime cleaned, otherwise good very fine (7)


Arthur Gaskell was born in Hastings, Sussex in April 1871 and joined the Royal Navy in 1893. Appointed Staff Surgeon in 1902 and Fleet Surgeon in 1906, he served during the Great War on attachment to the Royal Naval Division in the Dardanelles. He was appointed C.B. (London Gazette 1 January 1916, refers) and O.B.E. (London Gazette 12 September 1920, refers). Advanced to Surgeon Captain in 1920 and to Surgeon Vice-Admiral in 1927, he served as Medical Director-General of the Royal Navy from 1927-31 and was created K.C.B. (London Gazette 3 June 1930, refers). An Honorary Surgeon to the King, Fellow of both University College, London and the Royal Sanitary Institute, he died on 12 January 1952; sold with copied service record and research.

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