Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 2nd type, silver (Dr. Charles Macartney 1949) hallmarks for Birmingham 1947, with silver brooch bar, in T. S. Cuthbert, Glasgow case of issue; together with a silvered metal decorative bowl, 134mm. diameter, 65mm high, inscribed, ‘R.N.V.R. Officers 50 Yds. Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Macartney, December 13th 1924’, this dented, medal extremely fine (2) £160-200

William Charles Macartney qualified as M.D., Ch.B. Glasgow, 1909. Served as a Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was subsequently awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration. Was latterly the Senior Visiting Surgeon at the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Glasgow and Lecturer on Diseases of the Throat, Nose and Ear at Glasgow University.

Awarded the Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal on 2 August 1949, ‘... for courageous and meritorious action during a fire at 10 Royal Crescent on 28th Jan. 1949.’ His address at the time given as the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, 306 St. Vincent Street. With copied extract from The Medical Directory 1952.