Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Surgeon Captain A. C. Shaw, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (Surg. A. C. Shaw. R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. A. C. Shaw. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, mounted as originally worn, generally very fine (8) £120-£160

Archibald Campbell Shaw was born in Belfast, in March 1889. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. Shaw was commissioned Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in August 1914, and served during the Great War at H.M.S. Victory and Vivid. After the war Shaw was posted to the R.N. Hospital at Malta, and he advanced to Surgeon Lieutenant Commander in August 1920. He advanced to Surgeon Commander in August 1926, and was posted to Chatham Hospital. He subsequently served at the Royal Naval hospitals at Haslar and Great Yarmouth, and advanced to Surgeon Captain in December 1940.

In later life Shaw resided in Chichester, Sussex, and he died at the Nuffield United Services Officers Club, St. Michael’s Road, Southsea, Portsmouth in October 1958.