Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St John group of four awarded to Doctor H. D. Buss, M.R.C.S., who served as a Surgeon-Captain in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps with the Rhodesian Field Force 1900-02, and was in command of base hospitals at Marandellas and Bulawayo

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver, in its Carrington & Co. fitted case of issue; Jubilee 1897, silver, privately named ‘Surg. Capt. H. D. Buss, V.M.S.C.’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia (Lieut. H. D. Buss. Med: Staff. R.F.F.) officially engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Capt. H. D. Buss. Rhod. F.F.) officially engraved naming, toned, extremely fine £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Boer War Medals to Medical Services, the Church and the Press.

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Hon. Associate Member, Order of St John of Jerusalem, 27 February 1900.

Howard Decimus Buss was born in Camden, London, in April 1862 and studied at University College London, and at Paris and Montpellier, France, becoming L.S.A in 1884; M.R.C.S. in 1885; and B.A. and B.Sc. University of France in 1890. He was appointed Surgeon-Captain, Volunteer Medical Staff Corps on 24 March 1897 (Queen’s Jubilee Medal 1897), and was attached to base hospital at Marandellas in Rhodesia when he joined the Rhodesian Field Force. He later served at the base hospitals in Tembuland and Bulawayo (Queen’s medal with 2 clasps, King’s medal with 2 clasps), and became M.D. Brussels in 1907; M.R.C.P. London in 1907; Assistant Medical Officer, Leper Asylum, Robben Island in 1913-14; and Assistant Physician, Mental Hospital, Fort Beaufort, in 1919. Doctor Buss died at Fort Beaufort on 24 November 1919, aged 57. During his career he held numerous other posts, both in Europe and South Africa, and he wrote many articles for Medical Journals.

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