Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

A Great War C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. group of nine to Colonel H. Collinson, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with top bar, some enamel damage to wreaths; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1921, with top bar; France, Legion of Honour, 5th Class, silver, gold and enamel; France, Reconnaissance Medal, silver, last seven mounted as worn; together with a corresponding set of nine miniature dress medals (C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. in gold and enamel), mounted as worn, all contained in a glass topped wooden case complete with lock and key, good very fine and better (18) £1600-1800

C.B. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

C.M.G. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916, 4 January 1917, 25 June 1918, 30 December 1918, 10 July 1919.

T.D. London Gazette 4 July 1922.

Legion of Honour London Gazette 11 March 1919.

Harold Collinson was born on 19 August 1876, the son of J. W. Collinson of Halifax. He was educated at the Quaker schools at Ackworth and Bootham and then studied at the Yorkshire College and the Leeds Medical school. A brilliant academic career culminated in a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and the degree of M.S. London in 1907. His first resident post was as a House Surgeon in the General Infirmary, Leeds; later he was for three years resident surgical officer and in 1907 was elected honorary assistant surgeon; promoted to the full staff at the end of the war. He held a commission in the R.A.M.C.(T.F.) from 1905 and was mobilised with his unit, the 2nd West Riding Field Ambulance on 4 August 1914 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 15 April 1915. Between 20 May 1917 and 11 November 1918 he was on the Staff as Assistant Director of Medical Services. For his great wartime services he was awarded the C.B., C.M.G. and D.S.O. and was five times mentioned in despatches. After the war he was clinical lecturer in the faculty of Medicine at Leeds University, then Professor of Clinical Surgery, 1927-33, Professor of Surgery, 1933-36 and finally dean of the faculty for five years. Besides his work at the General Infirmary, Leeds he was also consulting surgeon to St. James’s Hospital, Leeds, the Mirfield Memorial Hospital, the Clayton Hospital, the Wakefield Hospital and Skipton and District Hospital. Collinson also represented the University of Leeds on the General Medical Council during 1936-42. During the Second World War he served as group officer and regional advisor in surgery under the Emergency Medical Service. He died on 25 January 1945. Sold with copied research details.