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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 281

The mounted C.B., C.M.G. group of eleven miniature dress medals worn by Colonel S. L. Cummins, Royal Army Medical Corps who served as Deputy Assistant Director General of Medical Services with the B.E.F. in France in 1915

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, gold and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, gold and enamel; Queen's Sudan 1896-98; 1914 Star, clasp; British War and Victory Medals with M.I.D. oak leaves; Turkey, Ottoman Empire, Order of Osmanieh; France, Republic, Legion of Honour; Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown; Belgium, Kingdom, Croix de Guerre; Khedive's Sudan, 4 clasps, Khartoum, Sudan 1899, Bahr-el-Ghazal 1900-2, Jerok, mounted as worn, very fine (11)

C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

C.M.G. London Gazette 23 June 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 September 1898, 19 October 1914, 7 April 1915, 22 June 1915, 1 January 1916, 29 May 1917, 30 May 1918, 10 July 1919.

Turkey, Order of Osmanieh, London Gazette 1907.

France, Legion of Honour, 4th Class London Gazette 3 November 1914.

Belgium, Order of the Crown, 4th Class London Gazette 24 February 1916.

Belgium, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 11 March 1918.

Stevenson Lyle Cummins was born at Cork, Ireland on 18 June 1873 and was educated at St Faughnan's College, Roscarbery and then at Queen's College, Cork. He qualified M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., R.U.I. in 1896, but also took the D.T.M.&H. (Cambridge) in 1907 and proceeded M.D. in 1913. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 28 July 1897 as a Surgeon-Lieutenant. He took part in the Nile Expedition of 1898 and from 17 January 1899 - 6 January 1909 he served with the Egyptian Army, serving in the Sudan from 1900-1902 and again in 1904, he was subsequently awarded the Turkish Order of Osmanieh, 4th Class in 1907.

His professional career focused on Pathology and in 1913 he won the Parkes Memorial Prize and medal for a paper on "The Causation and Prevention of Enteric Fever on Military Service.

He served as assistant Professor of Pathology at the Royal Army Medical College from 22 August 1913 - 1 February 1914 when he became Professor, holding this appointment up to the 4 August 1914. With the outbreak of the Great War he entered the war in France on 14 September 1914 and was Adviser in Pathology to the British Armies in France and Flanders and was awarded the C.B., C.M.G. and a Brevet Colonelcy. He was further awarded a Legion of Honour, 4th Class, Belgium, Order of the Crown, 4th Class as well as the Belgium, Croix de Guerre.

With the cessation of the Great War in November 1918 he returned to the Royal Army Medical College to be Professor of Pathology from 1 July 1919 - 31 January 1921, he retired the following day.

In a civil capacity he became Professor of Tuberculosis at the Welsh National School of Medicine where he remained until 1938. He was also Director of Research to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association. From December 1940 he assisted in collecting material for the compilation of the Medical History of War, and wrote various articles up until his death. Cummins died in Oxfordshire in April 1949.

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Estimate
£240 to £280

Starting price
£190