Victory Medal 1914-19 (Sir H. F. Waterhouse, B.R.C. & St. J.J.) good very fine £60-80

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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Herbert Furnival Waterhouse was born in London in 1864. He studied medicine at Edinburgh where he won the Goodsir Memorial Prize and the Dickson Travelling Fellowship. He graduated M.B., C.M. in 1887 and was awarded a gold medal for his M.D. thesis in 1889. The following year he obtained the F.R.C.S. After a period of postgraduate study at Gröningen, he was appointed a Resident Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 1891 he was elected to the staff of the Charing Cross Hospital, later becoming Dean and Lecturer in Anatomy at the hospital. He was also appointed Senior Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. During the Great War he served as Surgeon-in-Chief to the Anglo-Russian Hospitals, November 1915-November 1916. In 1917 he received a Knighthood (London Gazette 19 June 1917) - ‘Herbert Furnivall Waterhouse, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S., Member of Council and Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons.’ Latterly living at Wimpole Street, Sir Herbert died on 23 May 1931.

With a quantity of copied research.