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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 512

A 1959 O.B.E., Second World War and Korean War campaign group of nine awarded to Surgeon Captain E. B. Martin, Royal Navy

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd Type Officer's breast Badge, silver-gilt; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, Officer, silver and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence & War Medals; Korea 1950-53 (Surg. Cdr. E. B. Martin R.N.); U.N. Korea 1950-53, mounted as worn, good very fine (9)

O.B.E. London Gazette 13 June 1959.

Edward Boyd Martin was born around 1913 and qualified at the London Hospital in 1937, being commissioned Surgeon Lieutenant on 1 October 1937. He served aboard the Deptford from 10 March 1938 and thence joined the aircraft carrier Argus on 17 October 1941. Posted to Daedalus to specialise in aviation medicine, he was made Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander on 7 July 1943. He joined the Fleet Air Arm Station at Greenock in June 1944 (Defence Medal).

During the Korean War, Martin served aboard the Glory during her third deployment from 8 November 1952-19 May 1953. Returned ashore, he continued to make great contributions of aeronautical medicine, being presented with his richly-deserved O.B.E. at Buckingham Palace from The Queen on 10 November 1959.

Promoted Surgeon Captain in June 1961, Martin was made Assistant to the Medical Director General of the Royal Navy in January 1963. He assumed command of Daedalus in March 1966 and was retired in 1968. A member of the Royal College of Surgeons and the recipient of the Sir Gilbert Blane Gold Medal (1950), Martin died on 5 January 1973.

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