Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Colonel A. N. R. McNeill, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with top bar; 1914 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1936-39,1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Col., D.S.O., R.A.M.C.); War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted court style for wear, good very fine (7) £1200-1500

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 May 1918.

Arthur Norman Roy McNeill was born in Glasgow on 24 April 1886. He qualified as M.B., Ch.B. Glasgow 1907 and D.P.H. 1921. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. on 1 August 1908 and advanced to Captain in February 1912. McNeill entered France in October 1914 and remained actively employed there until the end of hostilities, latterly as Acting Lieutenant-Colonel and C.O. of No. 7 Cavalry Field Ambulance. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the D.S.O. Promoted to Major in August 1920, to Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1933 and Colonel in March 1937. Post-war he was employed with the R.A.M.C. in India, 1923-28, in Malaya, 1930-31, and again in India, 1936-41. In India he commanded the British Military Hospitals at Mhow and Rawalpindi. During July-December 1937 he served as A.D.M.S. H.Q. 1 Division, Waziristan - a posting which earned him the I.G.S. Medal. Returning to England in 1941 he was appointed A.D.M.S. H.Q. Devon & Cornwall District until June that year, when placed on the Retired List. He died in London in February 1947.

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