Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Colonel L. Way, Royal Army Medical Corps

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, N.E. Frontier 1891 (Surgeon, Army Medl. Staff); 1914 Star, with clasp (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Col.); Coronation 1902, Police Ambulance Service (Major), mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Lewis Way was born at Secunderabad on 8 March 1863. Appointed Surgeon, afterwards Surgeon Captain on 1 February 1890, he served in the Manipur Expedition of 1891 and the Burma Expedition of 1891-92. He was Adjutant of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, afterwards R.A.M.C. (Volunteers), 1898-1902. Promoted to Major in February 1902 and Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1912; he was appointed Temporary Colonel on 6 November 1915 whilst A.D.M.S.