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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 604

A mounted C.M.G. group of six miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. L. Wear, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, Badge, gold and enamel; 1914 Star, clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Coronation 1911; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., mounted as worn, good very fine (6)

C.M.G. London Gazette 22 June 1915.

Algernon Edward Luke Wear was appointed as Leeds Medical School Officer in 1910 and had joined the West Riding Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Force in 1908. During the Great War he served in command of No. 7 Clearing Station in France from 1914, being awarded his C.M.G. and a 'mention' (London Gazette 22 June 1915, refers). Wear stayed on with the Leeds Medical School to 1931, when he also stayed on at the opening of the James Graham Open-Air School. He died in 1941; sold together with copied extract from the Yorkshire Evening Post.

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£160

Starting price
£60