Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The C.M.G. and Boer War D.S.O. group of three awarded to Surgeon-Captain Emilius Hopkinson, 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901 (Surgn. Capt., 56/Co. 15/Impl. Yeo.) mounted for display in a case, very fine and better (3) £2400-2800

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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D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901. ‘Captain, Medical Officer [15th Battalion]’

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901.

Emilius Hopkinson was born on 31 March 1869, the eldest son of Jonathan Hopkinson Esq., of British Guiana and Frant, Sussex. He was educated at Haileybury and Trinity College, Oxford, gaining a B.A. in 1891. He did his medical training at St. Thomas’s Hospital, gaining the M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 1896; M.A. (Oxon) 1899 and M.B., B.Ch. (Oxon) 1899. He served in South Africa during the Boer War as Medical Officer of the 15th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, 1900-01 and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. He resigned his commission in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars - Oxfordshire Imperial Yeomanry in June 1904. After the war he served as Medical Officer with the West African Frontier Force, 1901-02; Protectorate Medical Officer, Gambia, 1903-11 and Travelling Commissioner, Gambia, 1911-29. Awarded the C.M.G. in 1922. A Fellow of the Zoological Society. Dr Hopkinson died in Haywards Heath, Sussex on 11 June 1951. With copied research.