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Air Efficiency Award, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Act. Wg. Cdr. W. D. Coltart A.A.F.) suspension a little slack, good very fine
£100-140

William Derrick Coltart was born in Fulham, London on 4 August 1907. He was educated at Epsom College and St. Bartholemew’s Hospital, where he qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1930 and M.B., B.S. shortly afterwards. He became a F.R.C.S. in 1933. During his early years he was House Surgeon to Sir Girling Ball and others at St. Bartholemew’s and House Surgeon to the orthopaedic and plastic departments under R. C. Emslie and others. Elsewhere he was variously Resident Medical Officer in King Edward VII Hospital of Officers, Registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

At the outbreak of the Second World War he was already a member of the Auxiliary Air Force, in which he served as an orthopaedic specialist. During the course of the war he attained the rank of Wing Commander.

After the war he returned to St. Bartholemew’s as an Assistant Orthopaedic Surgeon. Other appointments held included Surgeon to the Arthur Stanley Institute of the Middlesex Hospital; Orthopaedic Surgeon to Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield and Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. Also a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. He was latterly Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon to St. Bartholemew’s Hospital and Orthopaedic Surgeon to The Royal Marsden Hospital, and the Royal Masonic Hospital, St. Andrew’s Hospital. Coltart died on 5 June 1963.

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