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

A Great War O.B.E. group of four awarded to Major H. D. Rollinson, 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 (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Major) good very fine (4)
£300-350

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 3 June 1919. ‘Capt. (A./Maj.), R.A.M.C. (S.R.)’

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 December 1918; 10 July 1919.

Harry Dudley (or Duggan) Rollinson was born in Brierley Hill, Kingswinford, Staffordshire on 7 January 1885, the son of Mark Rollinson, Auctioneer. He qualified as a Medical Practitioner, gaining the M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Birmingham 1909; M.B., B.S. 1911; M.D., London, 1913; and F.R.C.S. Ed. 1920. Served as a Surgeon at the Coventry and Warwick Hospital and was a member of the B.M.A. As a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C.(S.R.) he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 August 1914 and continued to serve there until the end of the war. For his services he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. Rollinson died in Coventry on 20 October 1974. With copied research.