Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain Oliver Heath, Royal Army Medical Corps
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (13344 Tpr.; 68th Coy. 19th Impl. Yeo.), last clasp loose; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) good very fine and better (4) £140-160

Oliver Heath served in the 68th Company, 19th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry (Paget’s Horse) during the Boer War. Afterwards he gained the B.Chir. (1908), M.B. (1910), M.D. (1922) at Trinity College, Cambridge. Having served in Cambridge University O.T.U., he was appointed a Temporary Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. (London Gazette 3 June 1915) and Temporary Captain (London Gazette 24 May 1916). He relinquished his command, retaining the rank of Captain in 1920. Postwar he lived in Moretonhampstead, Devon, and was an Assistant at the Laboratory of Pathology and Public Health, Harley Street and Assistant Pathologist at St. Mary’s Hospital.