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Auction: 22002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 67

Three: Captain T. B. Garvie, South African Medical Corps, who served as a Civil Surgeon during the Boer War

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (T. B. Garvie, M.B. Surgeon); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ. Surg. T. B. Garvie); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. T. B. Garvie.), good very fine (3)

Purchased City Coins Auction No. 41.

Thomas Bonnar Garvie was born at Glasgow on 25 April 1875 and qualified from Glasgow University in 1897, serving in South Africa during the Boer War as a Civil Surgeon. He thence set up practice at Moorreesburg and was Railway Medical Officer for the section between Malmesbury and Erndekuil. During the Great War he served in the South African Medical Corps in the Cape from 9 January 1917-19 May 1919.

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