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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 350

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Colonel C. H. Budd, Royal Army Medical Corps, who gallantly tended the wounded whilst under shell fire in the open, who went on to raise and command the 2nd (First Eastern) General Hospital during the Second World War, who was a long-standing member of Cambridge society, including being Deputy-Lieutenant and Doctor to The Leys School for half a century

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Capt. C. H. Budd.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars, G.VI.R., mounted as worn, good very fine (7)

M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918:

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in attending to wounded under fire. Under heavy shelling, he went forward and dressed wounded, and dressed one man under full observation of the enemy.'

Charles Herbert Budd was born in 1886 in London and was educated at King's School, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford, before going to St Thomas's Hospital to qualify. In 1908 he enlisted in the London Scottish Territorials.

Having moved to Cambridge, he was employed at Cambridge General Hospital from October 1914, becoming Honorary Anaesthetist at Addenbrookes. Commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, he served in Macedonia from August 1916 and with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, before being attached to the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Palestine and Egypt. Budd added a 'mention' (London Gazette 14 June 1918, refers) to go with his outstanding M.C. before War's end.

Having had his Medals issued to 6 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge in August 1920, Budd was retained as Supernumerary Captain for service with the Medical Unit of the Cambridge University Contingent O.T.C. from April 1923. Awarded his T.D. in 1934, he formed and Commanded the 2nd (First Eastern) General Hospital at the outbreak of the Second World War; it later became the 20th General Hospital. He was made a Deputy-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire in 1942. Retired on account of his age on 16 May 1945, Budd remained in Cambridge. He was in General Practice and was for half a century Doctor of The Leys School, retiring in 1964. A Vice-President of the Cambridge British Legion, Old Contemptables Association and the Cambs and Isle of Ely Army Association, he also assisted in the formation of the County Cadet Force. Besides the Army, Budd was a keen musical man and was Trustee of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and President of the Amateur Dramatic Operatic Society. The Colonel died in 1969; sold together with his two pressed card identity tags, these named 'Col. C. H. Bugg 26212. C.E.', named box of issue for the Great War Pair and riband bars, besides copied research.

For his miniature dress medals, please see Lot 476.

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£700