Three: Lieutenant-Colonel R. Steen, Indian Medical Service

1914-15 Star (Major, I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Major) extremely fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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Robert Steen was born in Coleraine, Co. Londonderry in 1874. He studied medicine at Queen’s College, Belfast and graduated with a M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. in 1899 and gained the M.D. from the Royal University of Ireland in 1907. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in 1900 and was a member of the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1904-05. During the Great War he returned to the U.K. as Medical Officer aboard the troopship H.M.S. Goorkah. He was present at both the landing and evacuation of Gallipoli and was subsequently in charge of a hospital ship transporting wounded men from Calais to Southampton. After the war he took up private practice as a specialist in tropical medicine. Steen retired in 1953 and died on 22 January 1965. With copied research.