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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 79

Four: Surgeon-Captain E. W. St. Vincent-Ryan, 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, who served as Medical Officer of the Infantry Battalion, City of London Imperial Volunteers., and died of tuberculosis contracted at Cremona on the Italian Front in 1918

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (Sgn: Capt. E. W. St. V. Ryan. C.I.V.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. E. W. St Vincent-Ryan.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, the first mounted as originally worn, good very fine (4)

Ex-Jack Webb Collection.

Edmond William St. Vincent-Ryan was born in 1861. He served in the 16th Middlesex (London Irish) Volunteers, ranked Surgeon Captain in 1898, and proceeded to South Africa with that rank in 1900 with the City of London Imperial Volunteers on the S.S. Gaul. Although he was officially Medical Officer of the Infantry Battalion During the Boer War, he in fact served with the Mounted Infantry.

St. Vincent-Ryan was promoted Major in the Territorial Force in 1908 and served during the Great War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, initially in Malta, from September 1914-March 1916, being promoted Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 November 1914.

He served in Salonika from June 1916-November 1917 and then with the Italian Expeditionary Force on the Italian Front until June 1918. Diagnosed with Tuberculosis at Cremona on 3 April 1918, he died at Pendyffryn Hall Sanitorium, Dwygyfylich, Wales on 24 August 1919.


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