Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain F. E. Reynolds, Royal Army Medical Corps and Glasgow Special Constabulary
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. F. E. Reynolds.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Francis E. Reynolds.) first two mounted as worn, the last in named ‘Glasgow’ card box of issue, good very fine

Pair: Captain W. V. Tothill, Royal Army Medical Corps
British War and Victory Medals (Capt. W. V. Tothill.) very fine (5) £70-£90

Francis Esmond Reynolds, M.D., M.B., CH.B., F.R.C.P. (Ed.), F.R.S. (Ed.), was born in 1882 and served during the Great War as a temporary Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was sometime Officer Commanding, 28th Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory, Army of the Black Sea at Baku, and died in 1967.

Walter Vincent Tothill was born in 1886 and served during the Great War as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (Special Reserve). He was the author of Doctor’s Office, published in 1939, and was the Medical Officer to the British Phosphates Commissioners on the Island of Nauru, from 1939 to 1942 - he was present when the German surface raider Komet shelled and wrecked the phosphates plant on 27 December 1940, and was evacuated with his wife, and other B.P.C. employees, by the Free French Destroyer Le Triomphant on 23 February 1942. He died in 1954.