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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 780

The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals worn by Major-General G. A. Blake, C.B., Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, polished, otherwise very fine (10)

Gilbert Alan Blake was born on 9 January 1887 and was educated at Eastbourne College and the University of London, where he qualified as a surgeon. He joined the R.A.M.C. in 1912 and worked at Guy's Hospital. He gained rapid promotion during the Great War and followed this with extensive service overseas in Egypt and India. The Commanding Officer of the British Medical Hospital at Rawalpindi from 1937-38, and Murree in 1938, he returned home and served on the Staff during the Norwegian Campaign, receiving a mention in despatches on 20 December 1940. He later became Deputy Director of Army Medical Services, Western Command, and Honorary Surgeon to the King from May 1942; sold with research.

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