An inter-war O.B.E. group of four awarded to Commissioner and Medical Officer D. P. Wailling, British Virgin Islands, late Indian Medical Department

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Asst. Sgn. D. P. Wailling, I.M.D.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last two privately engraved, ‘Commissioner D. P. Wailling, Virgin Islands’, mounted as worn, generally very fine (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 8 June 1939.

Donald Percy Wailling, who was born in August 1898, was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Indian Medical Department in May 1920, and quickly witnessed active service in the Mahsud and Waziristan operations. Having then held appointments at hospitals in Purandhar and Secunderabad, he resigned from the I.M.D. and returned to the U.K., where he qualified as a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in the late 1920s. Wailling again went overseas in the 1930s and gained appointment as Commissioner and Medical Officer of the Virgin Islands in 1935, in which capacity he remained employed until 1940, and was awarded the O.B.E.

He later held appointments in British Guiana and retired to St. Lucia, where he died in 1965.