Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B. group of nine awarded to Major-General R. C. Munday, late Surgeon Captain, Royal Navy, and winner of the Gilbert Blane and Chadwick Gold Medals

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, in its Garrard case of issue; China 1900, no clasp (Surgn. R.N., Nl. Depot Wei-Hai-Wei); Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (Fleet Surgeon, R.N. H.M.S. Hyacinth); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Ft. Surg., R.N. H.M.S. Hyacinth); British War Medal (Ft. Surg. R.N.); Defence & War Medals; Gilbert Blane Gold Medal, 38mm, 53gms (Fleet Surg., H.M.S. “Hyacinth” 1910); Edwin Chadwick Gold Medal, 38mm, 46gms (Fleet Surgeon, R.N. In recognition of services in promoting the Health of the Navy. 1915) some light contact marks, otherwise good very fine (9) £1800-2200

Richard Cleveland Munday was born in Valetta, Malta, on 17 December 1867, son of Paymaster-in-Chief R. Munday, R.N. He was educated at Plymouth College and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. House Physician, Royal Free Hospital; passed as Surgeon R.N. in 1890; qualified as an Interpreter in Persian (1893) and Hindustani (1894); Staff Surgeon, 1902; Fleet Surgeon, 1906; Principal Medical Offcier, East Indies, 1909-11; Member of the Admiralty Committee on Boys’ Training Ships, 1914, and as Secretary and Member of Admiralty Committee on Ventilation of Warships, 1914. During the Great War Munday served as Assistant Director-General Medical Department, Admiralty, and later as Medical Administrator, Royal Air Force (C.B.); Medical Member and subsequently Chairman, Pensions Appeal Tribunal, 1921-26; Chairman, Recruiting Medical Board, Plymouth, 1939-46; awarded Turkish Order of the Liakat, 1908; author of a Report on Beri-Beri, 1912. He died on 15 July 1952.