The group of five miniature dress medals worn by Brigadier C. A. Slaughter, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935; Russia, Empire, Order of St. Anne, Military Division, silver and enamel; Order of St. Stanislaus, Military Division, silver and enamel, mounted as originally worn, good very fine (5) £140-£180

Claud Aldous Slaughter was the son of Surgeon-General W. B. Slaughter, and was born in Secunderabad, India, in February 1889. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Special Reserve from the Edinburgh University O.T.C. in July 1913 (LRCP&S Edinburgh; LRFPS&S, Glasgow 1916). Slaughter was mobilised into the Royal Army Medical Corps in February 1916, and initially served in Sierra Leone, 1916-17.

Slaughter advanced to Captain, and served in the French theatre of war from September 1917. He served with the R.A.M.C. in North Russia as part of the Allied Intervention, 29 April - 12 October 1919, and in the Black Sea, 1919-23. Slaughter returned to the country of his birth, and served on the North West Frontier, 1924-30 (M.I.D. London Gazette 8 May 1936). He advanced to Major in February 1928, and continued to serve in India, 1931-37.

Slaughter was a specialist in Radiology, and was stationed at the British Military Hospital of Rawalpindi and Murree, 1932-35, and at the Connaught Military Hospital Poona, 1937-40. He advanced to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in April 1940, and served as Officer Commanding of the 198th Field Ambulance, 1940-41. Slaughter was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1942, and served as Assistant Director Medical Service, Central Command, India, 1942-44. He advanced to Acting Brigadier in August 1944, and took up various positions with the Ceylon H.Q. After the war Slaughter was employed as the Senior Medical Officer Ceylon and C.O. of the Military Hospital Columbo. He returned to the UK as the C.O. of the Military Hospital Tidworth, 1950-52. Brigadier Slaughter retired in December 1952, and died in 1968.

For the recipient’s related full-size awards, see Lot 469.