Orders, Decorations and Medals

Army Medical School Martin Memorial Medal 1876, obverse: shield bearing coat of arms, lion above, ‘In Memory of Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B.’; reverse: ‘Army Medical School, Prize for Military Medicine, Founded 1876’ (Lieutenant G. E. Charles, I.M.S., 1901), 35mm., silver-gilt, slight edge bruising / test marks, good very fine £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Training Ship and Prize Medals.

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Ex Spencer Collection, D.N.W. 6 July 2004, lot 929.

The Martin Memorial Medal for military medicine was founded in 1876 in memory of Sir Ranald Martin, a founding member of the Army Medical School Senate.

Godfrey Eustace Charles was born on 23 March 1874. Studying at Queen’s College, Cork, Bart’s and UniversityCollege London, he gained the B.A., M.B. and Ch.B. To which he added the B.A.O. at R.U.I. in 1898, and became a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. London in the same year. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service in June 1901, he was promoted to Captain in June 1904. He died in Europe on 28 September 1907.