Medals from the collection of the late Mike Leahy

The group of five awarded to Major D. S. B. Thomson, Royal Army Medical Corps and Sudan Political Service, who previously served under his father Sir William Thomson, with the Irish Hospital in South Africa

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Drsr., Irish Hospital); 1914-15 Star (Major, R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem (Major); Egypt, Order of the Nile, 5th class, silver and enamels, by Lattes, the first four mounted as worn, good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of the late Mike Leahy.

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Douglas Stoker Brownlee Thomson was born in Dublin, the son of Sir William Thomson, in 1879. He accompanied his father to South Africa as a Dresser with the Irish Hospital. He was one of four Dressers with the hospital, all of whom were then medical students. He qualified in Dublin, M.B. D.P.H. 1904, and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in January 1904 as a Lieutenant, and was promoted to Captain in 1907. In 1905 he joined the Egyptian Army and was later appointed medical officer on a commission investigating the kala-azar disease in the Sudan. In 1910 he left the Sudan medical department and became a junior inspector in the political service. Thomson Bey was commissioner at Port Sudan from 1928 to 1932, when he retired with the ranks of Miralai and Major. He died in 1939.