Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Surgeon A. MacPherson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914-15 Star (Surg. A. Mac-Pherson, R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Surg. A, Mac Pherson. R.N.V.R.); together with the recipient’s Edinburgh Royal High School Macdonald Prize Medal 1907, 56mm, silver, with heavy gilt border, the reverse named ‘Alexander MacPherson’, good very fine, the last rare (4) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Naval Surgeons.

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Alexander MacPherson was born in Edinburgh on 14 September 1896 and was educated at Edinburgh Royal High School, winning the Macdonald Prize Medal in 1907, and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a Surgeon-Probationer on 2 August 1915, and was appointed initially to the River Class Destroyer H.M.S. Rother, before transferring to H.M.S. Nigella in February 1916, and then to H.M.S. Petard in 1918. He was demobilised from H.M.S. Verbena in 1919 and resumed his medical studies, graduating LRCP and LRCS from Edinburgh, and LRFPS from Glasgow in January 1922. He served during the 1930s and early 1940s as a Medical Officer with the West African Medical Service on the Gold Coast, and died in Edinburgh on 3 March 1955.

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