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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 1016

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Ensor, Royal Army Medical Corps

Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya, Brunei (Capt. E. M. Ensor. R.A.M.C.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Lt. Col. E. M. Ensor. RAMC.), mounted as worn, the second and third clasps to fifth separate upon ribbon, good very fine (6)

Edward Maurice Ensor was born on 15 February 1913 at Woolwich, London, the elder son of Major-General H. Ensor, Royal Army Medical Corps, of Osbornes, Hawkhurst, Kent. Awarded the Diploma of Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians by the University of London in 1941, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 27 September 1941, and was later promoted Captain on 27 September 1942 and Acting Major on 29 April 1944. Serving in the Mediterranean theatre from 1942-45, he was sent to India in 1945, MELF 1946-47, East Africa from 1947-49, FARELF 1953-56, BAOR 1956-58, and was made Commanding Officer of No. 14 Field Ambulance from 1957-58. Transferred to CDEE Porton from 1958-60, and FARELF from 1960-63, he devoted considerable time to the Research Wing and as part of the Malaria Control Research team leadership.

As Officer Commanding, Medical Research and Control Unit, FARELF, Ensor published an in-depth paper titled Encephalitis in Singapore in 1963. His work focussed upon the intracerebral inoculation of suckling mice with pooled extracts of wild-caught mosquitoes, as a means to investigate the virus disease problem in British, Gurkha and Malayan troops and their dependants. His last posting was as Consultant at the Headquarters of Western Command in 1964; sold together with copied research.

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£210