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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 248

A Great War C.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. M. Callender, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. E. M. Callender); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Lt. Col. E. M. Callender. R.A.M.C.); Coronation 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver-gilt and silver, hallmarks for London 1932, with integral top riband bar, adapted for mounting; Order of the League of Mercy, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, good very fine (7)

C.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Eustace Maude Callender was born at Whalley Range, Manchester on 31 October 1864. Educated at Rugby - which included shooting for the eight at Wimbledon in 1881 - and St. Mary's Hospital, London, he became a member of the Artists' Rifles in 1882 and was made Surgeon of the Civil Service Rifle Corps from 1894-1908. Appointed to the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1908, he commanded the 2nd General Hospital from 1912-21 and spent two years overseas in command of the 53rd General Hospital. By war's end, he had a C.B.E. to go with three 'mentions'. President of the Medical Society of London from 1924-25 and Vice-President of the Harveian Society in 1927 and 1928. Earning the Order of the League of Mercy in 1932, he was a keen fisherman and deer stalker and a member of the Caledonian and Mid-Surrey Golf Clubs. Retiring to Cuckfield, Callender died on 3 April 1952; sold together with cap Badge and copied research.

Callender worked closely with Matron Riddell, Territorial Force Nursing Service during the Great War, her Medals are offered as Lot 289.

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£750