Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Pair: Dr. Ruth E. Proctor, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

British War and Victory Medals (R. E. Proctor); together with a University of St. Andrew’s Prize Medal, for Midwifery & Gynaecology, 1912-13 (Ruth Elizabeth Proctor, M.A.), 52mm., bronze, in Kirkwood, Edinburgh case of issue, good very fine and better (3) £60-80

Ruth Elizabeth Proctor gained a M.A. in 1908 and a M.B., Ch.B. in 1913 at St. Andrew’s. During the Great War she was Civil Surgeon at Middlesex County War Hospital and in 1917 a Medical Official with the Auxiliary Section of the Royal Army Medical Corps. She gained her D.P.H and R.C.P.S. in England in 1922. Latterly she was Head of Department, Hygiene and Bacteriology, at the King’s College of Household and Social Sciences; Honorary Medical Director, Albany Deptford Babies Hospital; Examiner in Hygiene, Western Joint Committee of the University of Bristol and Training Colleges; Part-time Assistant Medical Officer of the London County Council and Assistant Medical Officer, Bromley Borough Council and Middlesex County Council. Sold with further research details.