Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Order of St. John group of five awarded to Major N. MacLaren, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Serving Brother’s badge, silver and enamel, unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Major); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1919, with top bar, very fine and better (5) £140-180

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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Norman MacLaren was born in Carlisle on 12 June 1876, son of Roderick MacLaren, M.D. He was educated at Carlisle Grammar School, Rugby, Trinity College Cambridge and St. Bartholemew’s Hospital. He qualified M.B., B.Ch. in 1901 and in the same year received the diplomas M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. and two years later was elected a F.R.C.S. He was appointed to the staff of the Cumberland Infirmary as an Assistant Surgeon in 1904, he was advanced to Surgeon in 1912 and retired in 1936 as Consulting Surgeon. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Border Counties Home for Incurables and the Cumberland and Westmoreland Convalescent Home. At the outbreak of war MacLaren held a commission in the 1st Volunteer Battalion Border Regiment, and proceeded with his battalion to Burma. In 1916 he was transferred to Bombay where he worked at the Colaba Hospital as a Major in the R.A.M.C.; he was later posted to Egypt. MacLean was Assistant County Commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and County Controller for the Cumberland and Westmoreland V.A.D. In 1927 he was elected a J.P. He died on 12 August 1937. With copied research.