Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain J. H. Meers, Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action, 10 October 1915

1914 Star, with copy clasp (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.) extremely fine (3) £350-450

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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John Henry Meers was born on 11 September 1885, the eldest son of James Blackader Meers of Lancaster Gate, London. He was educated at King’s School, Canterbury. He trained as a Physician and became a M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. Prior to the war he was a House Physician at St. Mary’s Hospital and afterwards Islington Infirmary. In 1912 he took a practice in Wandsworth. On the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.M.C. as a Temporary Lieutenant. He entered France on 23 August 1914 and was attached to No. 11 General Hospital. He was later appointed medical officer to the 10th Veterinary Hospital and then assistant sanitary officer at Boulogne. In October 1915 as a Captain, he was attached as medical officer to the 1st Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. In this capacity whilst serving at the front, he was killed in action on 10 October 1915. He was assisting a wounded private who was lying in great pain exposed to enemy fire, when he was hit in the arm by a bullet. It was some time before his comrades could bring him in, but as they got him to the edge of the trench he was killed by shrapnel from a shell explosion. He was buried in the Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery, France. With copied research. Not entitled to clasp.