Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Surgeon Lieutenant J. C. Hendrie, Royal Navy
British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. J. C. Hendrie. R.N.) mounted for wear, minor edge bruise to BWM, good very fine

Pair: Surgeon Probationer C. E. McQuade, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Prob. C. E. Mc Quade. R.N.) mounted for wear, very fine (4) £120-£160

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

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James Charles Hendrie was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, on 13 March 1894 and was educated at Glasgow University, graduating MB and ChB in 1918. He was commissioned Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 10 May 1918, and served afloat in H.M.S. Erebus from 6 July 1918, and subsequently in H.M.S. Calypso from February to October 1919, during which period the ship was operating in the Baltic Sea as part of the Baltic Naval Fleet during the Russian Intervention. He relinquished his commission in 1919 and entered private practice in Birmingham. Subsequently appointed Doctor of Public Health for Birmingham in 1931, he authored a paper on the Study of Tuberculous in 1934, before taking up an appointment as Medical Officer and Lecturer in Public Hygiene at the Teacher Training Centre in Aberdeen in 1936. He returned to private practice in Manchester in 1945, and retired in 1959. He died in Ayrshire on 6 January 1960.

Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.

Cecil Emrys McQuade was appointed Surgeon Probationer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 29 August 1916.