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Sold between 19 June & 13 September 2012

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

Anthony Garth Sabell, MBE

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№ 1272

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£120

Eight: Major B. W. Thompson, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Prob., R.N.V.R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (8) £80-100

Bernard Woolcott Thompson was born on 20 July 1891. Educated at Marlborough College, 1905-08 and King’s College, Cambridge, 1911-14. He gained a B.A. and later became a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1921. Appointed a Surgeon Probationer in the R.N.V.R., 3 July 1916; he served from 21 November 1916 on the sloop Campanula. During the Second World War he served as an officer in the R.A.M.C. - Lieutenant, November 1939; War Substantive Captain, November 1940; Temporary Major, June 1943. In civilian life he was Resident Anaesthetist, St. Bartholemew’s Hospital and House Physician, Metropolitan Hospital. He later lived at The Grange, Desford, Leicestershire.