Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Midshipman W. J. B. Riddell, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Glasgow

British War and Victory Medals (Mid., R.N.V.R.) extremely fine (2) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

View
Collection

William John Brownlow Riddell was born in 1899. He was educated at the Glasgow Academy, Glasgow University and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He served as a Midshipman in the R.N.V.R., 1917-19. Amongst his many honours and achievements, he was Emeritus Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Glasgow; Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon, Western Infirmary, Glasgow; Lucien Howe Lecturer, Harvard, 1946; Charles H. May Lecturer, New York Academy of Medicine, 1946; President of the Ophthalmic section of the B.M.A., 1954; Convocation Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1954, etc. Laterly living at Gladstone Place, Aberdeen, Professor Riddell died on 18 February 1976.

With copied research.