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Auction: 6017 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 317

A Rare British Red Cross Society Medal For the First Balkans War 1912-13 Group of Six to Captain H.H.V. Welch, Royal Army Medical Corps, Late East Africa Medical Service, Physician to the Zultana of Zanzibar 1914-15 Star (Capt. H.H.V. Welch. E. Afr. M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. H.H.V. Welch.); Greece, Order of the Redeemer, Knight´s breast Badge, silver, gold and enamel, minor white enamel damage, in G. Pomonis, Athens case of issue; Greek Medal for the First Balkan War 1912-13; with British Red Cross Society Medal, silver-gilt and enamel (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1913), with enamel clasp for Greece and top riband bar for Balkan War 1912-13, minor enamel damage, in case of issue, nearly extremely fine, unless stated otherwise, with (4) associated miniature awards, in custom made leather Spink & Son, London, case (6) The group together with the following official documents: - Commission appointing Harvey Henry Vincent Welch, M.B. as Temporary Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps,, dated 6.2.1917 - Bestowal documents for the two Greek awards, with letter of Translation, dated 23.3.1914, all named to ´N.V. Welsh´ (sic) - copy of obituary and other ephemera Estimate £ 450-500Captain Harvey Henry Vincent Welch, M.B., born Shanghai, 1887; educated at Dulwich College, London; spent a year as House Surgeon, St. Thomas´s Hospital, London; went to Kenya as Medical Officer, 1913, ´during the War [1914-19] he did brilliant medical work in France. Wounds and the strain there broke his health down and though he came back to Kenya he never really recovered´ (Obituary refers); resigned as Medical Officer and Surgical Officer in charge of the Nairobi Hospital, 1925; Physician to the Sultana of Zanzibar; died 1938.

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