Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel E. L. Rowse, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Major); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Capt., R.A.M.C.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnmaed, hallmarks for London 1920, complete with top bar; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 2nd type, 5th Class with swords, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted as worn; together with British Red Cross Society Proficiency Cross, with clasp, Medical Officer (572 Lt. Col. E. L. Rowse), with buckle on ribbon, medals in leather case, good very fine (6) £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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Edward Leopold Rowse trained at Charing Cross Hospital and qualified as a M.R.C.S. England, L.R.C.P. London 1890 and M.D., Brussels, 1893. During the Great War he was ranked a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C., and was the Officer in Command of the Floriana and Ghain Tuffleha Hospitals, Malta, 1915-18. For his services during the war he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle 5th Class by the Kingdom of Serbia. A member of the British Medical Association and British Homœopathic Society, he was at various times employed as a House Physician and Resident Obstetrics Officer, Charing Cross Hospital and House Physician, Consumption Hospital, Brompton. In the late 1920’s/early 1930’s his address was given as 143 Harley Street, W1.