Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The scarce A.G.S. ‘West Africa 1909-10’ awarded to Doctor E. M. Franklin, South Nigeria Field Force, later Senior Medical Officer, Gold Coast

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, West Africa 1909-10 (Dr E. M. Franklin, Medical Dept. S.N.F.F.) very fine £1,000-£1,400

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from an Africa Collection.

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Dix Noonan Webb, July 2004

Approximately 11 A.G.S. with ‘West African 1909-10’ clasps issued to Political and Medical Personnel.

Evelyn Morris Franklin became a LRCP at Edinburgh in 1903, LRCS also at Edinburgh, and LFPS at Glasgow in 1903. He joined the Medical Staff of the Colonial Office, and was posted to Nigeria. Franklin was transferred to the Gold Coast in 1925, and appointed Senior Medical Officer, Gold Coast in March 1925. He was elected to the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine in 1932, whilst working at The European Hospital, Accra (his home address at the time being recorded as 47 Montefiore Road, Hove, Sussex). Franklin subsequently returned to the UK, and was residing at “Highfield”, Berwick, Sussex in 1943. He died the following year.

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