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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 621

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier J. J. M. Soutar, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, Director of Veterinary Services in India, 1940-44

1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. Oak Leaves; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Egypt, Order of the Nile, silver-gilt, silver and enamel, rosette on riband; Khedive’s Sudan 1910-21, one clasp, Garjak Nuer, good very fine, mounted court-style as worn by and housed in a damaged case by Spink & Son, London (7)

[C.B.E.] London Gazette 1.1.1943

[O.B.E.] London Gazette 17.6.1921.
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations against the Garjak Nuers, Sudan.'

M.I.D. London Gazette 17.2.1915

M.I.D. London Gazette 5.1.1919

M.I.D. London Gazette 17.6.1921

John James McFarlane Soutar was born at Edinburgh on 23 January 1889 and was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Royal Veterinary College, Edinburgh. Having entered the Army Veterinary Corps as Lieutenant, 1910, he was promoted Captain in 1915. Seconded to the Egyptian Army during the Great War, he served in the campaign of Garjak Nuer, December 1919-April 1920 and was Senior Instructor at the Royal Army Veterinary School, 1922-26. Made Major, 1925, he was Assistant Director of Veterinary Services India, 1931-35. Made Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1934, he was Colonel and Temporary Brigadier, 1940 and was Director of Veterinary Services in India, 1940-44. Following the Second War he resided at St. Andrew’s, Fife and died on 16 December 1956.

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