Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell

A Great War O.B.E. group of seven awarded to Surgeon Captain P. N. Button, Royal Navy, late Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; 1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg-Lt., R.N.); Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of seven miniature dress medals, very fine (7) £450-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 22 August 1919.

Philip Norman Button was appointed a Lieutenant on probation in the R.A.M.C. on 19 June 1911 and was confirmed in that rank in October 1912. Having qualified as a medical practitioner the year before, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 7 October 1914; on 19 December 1914 he was promoted to Captain. He resigned his commission on 5 April 1915 on appointment to the Royal Navy. As a Surgeon-Lieutenant, he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1919 ‘for valuable services in H.M.S. Yarmouth and with the 3rd R.M. Battalion in the Eastern Mediterranean’. Later living at Southsea, Surgeon-Captain Button, R.N. (retired) died on 12 October 1952. With some copied research including death certificate and will.