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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 538

The Good Boer War C.M.G., Great War C.B.E. Group of Nine to Colonel J.P. Bush, Royal Army Medical Corps, Principal Medical Officer on the Hospital Ship Lismore Castle During the Boer Conflict; Later Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion´s (C.M.G.) breast Badge, 50mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral riband buckle b) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Commander´s (C.B.E.) neck Badge, 78mm including crown suspension x 60mm, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband c) Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Natal, loose on riband (Surgeon J.P. Bush C.M.G.) d) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves (Bt. Col. J.P. Bush) e) Territorial Force War Medal (Lt. Col. J.P. Bush C.M.G. R.A.M.C.) f) Coronation 1911 g) Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver (Hallmarks for London 1919), with integral top riband bar h) Belgium, Kingdom, Order of the Crown, Officer´s breast Badge, 61mm including wreath suspension x 46mm, silver-gilt and enamel, minor enamel damage, otherwise good very fine, the group mounted and framed in glazed case, together with the related miniature awards, the Q.S.A. a no clasp medal (9) Estimate £ 1,100-1,200 C.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Bush, Lt.-Col. & Bt. Col. James Paul, C.M.G. R.A.M.C. (T.F.) T.D. London Gazette 22.5.1918 Bush, Lt.-Col. & Bt. Col. J.P., C.M.G. Colonel James Paul Bush, C.M.G., C.B.E., T.D., born Brislington, Bristol, 1857; educated at Clifton College, Bristol Medical School, Bristol Royal Infirmary, and University College Hospital, London. At Bristol Medical School he won the gold medals for Medicine and Surgery; M.R.C.S. 1881; L.S.A. 1882; Appointed Assistant Surgeon, Bristol Infirmary, 1885; Surgeon, Bristol Infirmary, 1889; Surgeon, Bristol Volunteer Rifles; served in South Africa as Senior Surgeon, Princess Christian Hospital, Natal Field Force; and Principal Medical Officer, Hospital Ship Lismore Castle; for his services in South Africa he was Mentioned in Despatches and appointed C.M.G. 1901; Appointed to command 2nd Southern General Hospital, Territorial Force, 1908; during the Great War 860 wounded and sick Belgian soldiers were admitted to the hospital, and for his treatment of them he was appointed an Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown in 1919; proceeded to Etaples in command of No. 56 General Hospital, 20.4.1917 (Mentioned twice in Despatches); A.D.M.S., No. 2 Area, Southern Command, 8.8.1918. After the War Colonel Bush was a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire; he died 7.10.1930.

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