Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine First and Second World War group of fourteen awarded to Major-General T. Young, C.B., O.B.E., Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II and Colonel Commandant of the R.A.M.C. 1955-61
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Major, R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Brig., (O.B.E.). Staff); Coronation 1953, unnamed; U.S.A., Legion of Merit, Legionnaire’s badge, enamelled, unnamed; France, Medal of Gratitude, W.W.2 issue, bronze, unnamed, mounted court style as worn; together with a mounted set of 15 miniature dress medals - as above with the addition of an Order of the Bath (Military Division) silver-gilt and enamel, mounted court style as worn, and with a mounted set of four miniature (Great War and I.G.S.) dress medals, good very fine (33) £1200-1400

C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1951.

O.B.E. (Military) London Gazette 13 December 1945.

M.I.D. London Gazette 2 July 1917; 16 September 1943; 22 February 1945.

Thomas Young was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire on 4 June 1893, the son of William Fulton and Euphemia Murray Young. Educated at Glasgow University, he gained the M.B. Ch.B. (Glasgow) 1915; D.P.H. (Cambridge) 1924, and M.D. (Glasgow) 1951. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the Special Reserve on 26 January 1914 and mobilized on 23 April 1915. As a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. he entered the Dardanelles theatre of war on 11 August 1915. Young was promoted to Captain in October 1915 and served as Acting Major, June-December 1919. He served in the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 1916-18. For his wartime services he was mentioned in Major-General Sir A. J. Murray’s despatches of 18 March 1917.

Young served in Egypt, 1918-22 and was appointed a Temporary Major, January-November 1924 and was promoted to that rank in April 1927. He served in India, 1925-31 and 1934-39. He was appointed Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1939; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1939; and was promoted to that rank in May 1941. Appointed Acting Colonel in December 1941; Temporary Colonel in June 1942, he was promoted to Colonel in November 1945. During the war he served with the H.Q. Western Command as A.D.H.& P. 1939-40, A.D.H. 1940-41, and D.D.H. 1941-42; then with the British North Africa Command as D.D.H., 1942-45. For his wartime services he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. and from France he was awarded the Medal of Gratitude (1945) and from the U.S.A. the Legion of Merit (1946).

After the war he served as Commandant of the Army School of Hygiene, 1946-48 and was promoted to Brigadier in November 1947. Then with H.Q. FARELF he served as D.D.M.S., January-February 1948 and D.M.S. 1948-49. In 1949 he attained the rank of Major-General and in 1951 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Young was appointed Honorary Physician to the King on 13 January 1950 and Honorary Physician to the Queen on 1 April 1952. He held the position of Director of Army Health at the War Office from 1949 until his retirement in 1953. Appointed Colonel Commandant of the R.A.M.C. 1955-61. Latterly living in Truro, Cornwall, Major-General Young died on 21 August 1979.

Sold with a quantity of original paperwork, including: Order of the Bath bestowal document and accompanying letter, in damaged envelope addressed to Major-General Thomas Young at 18 Grange Road, Bushey, Near Watford’; Statutes of the Order of the Bath; Order of the British Empire bestowal document and accompanying letter, in damaged addressed envelope; M.I.D. Certificates (3) - two in addressed envelopes; Invitation to the Coronation at Westminster, 2 June 1953, in addressed envelope; Coronation 1953 award certificate in addressed envelope; U.S.A. Legion of Merit bestowal document, together with three associated photographs of the presentation; French Medal of Gratitude bestowal document and associated papers; Booklet re the Dinner given by the Army to H.M. The Queen, 27 November 1956, with two associated photographs of the event, and The Army Medical Service Magazine, January 1956 which featured Major-General Young. Together with some copied research.