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Bonhams have a sale on 27 Mar 13 containing medals from the collection of Dr A Lloyd. There are some lovely South African items in this auction.

My thanks to Bonhams for allowing the following images to be reproduced.

Group to Civil Surgeon A E Horn:



A son of William Horn of Forest Hill, he was educated at the City of Westminster School and St. Mary's Hospital.

During the South African War he was a civilian surgeon attached to the Field Force. His QSA is named to Civil Surgeon.

He joined the West African Medical Service in 1904 and served on the Gold Coast, in North and South Nigeria, and in Gambia, and received the thanks of the Secretary of State for the Colonies for his report on cerebrospinal fever in the Northern Territory of the Gold Coast (1908), and for his report on sleeping sickness in the Volta River District of the Gold Coast (1910). He was seconded for special service in 1910-12 and was appointed personal assistant to the Principal Medical Officer, Nigeria, in 1913. His next post was that of senior M.O. and member of the Executive and Legislative Council of Gambia.

In 1920 he was attached to the Rockefeller Commission for Investigating Yellow Fever, and in the following year he became Director of Medical and Sanitary Commission of the Colonial Office. Two years later he succeeded Sir William Prout as Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, and in 1928 became Consulting Physician. He was created C.M.G. in 1922 and received a Knighthood in 1937.

Sir Arthur Horn joined the British Medical Association in 1902; he was president of the 5th Congress of the Far East Association for Tropical Medicine in 1923. In addition to his official reports he contributed papers to the Lancet on the health of Europeans in West and in East Africa.

Group to Physician J W Washbourn, IY Hospital.



Dr John Wichenford Washbourn was born at Gloucester in 1863, he was eductaed at King's College Gloucester, Guy's Hospital, the University of Vienna and the University of Konigsberg.

In 1900 he proceeded to South Africa until June 1901, where he was consulting physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, first at Deelfontein and afterwards at Pretoria. He was gazetted C.M.G. in 1900, and after consulting physician to His Majesty's forces in South Africa 1901.

He was famous for the part he played in the elucidation of the causation of the Maidstone typhoid fever epedemic in 1897, when he was called in to advise the local authorities.

He died on the 20th June 1902 from influenza. There is a bronze memorial to him at Guy's Hospital, London.

Group to Colonel C H Hale, RAMC



Colonel Charles Henry Hale was born at Eastbourne on 9th March 1863, he was the second son of Mr G.W.Hale. He was educated at Plymouth Grammar School and St.Mary's Hospital.

He entered the Army as Surgeon and became Captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps on 5th February 1887. He served in South Africa from 1890-97 and was Mentioned in Despatches and created a DSO. The insignia was presented to him by the Queen at Windsor on the 19th May 1897. He became Major on 5th February 1899 and served in the Boer War from 1901-1902, taking part in the operations in Orange River Colony from March 1901 to 31 May 1902, and operations in the Cape Colony February to March 1901-1902, entitled to QSA with four bars. He became Lieutenant Colonel 7 June 1911. He served in WW1 from 1914, becoming Colonel on 1st March 1915. He was Assistant Director of Medical Services from 28th April 1915 to 28th December 1915 and D.A.M.S. 9th Corps, to the evacuation of Sulva Bay, and then D.D.M.S. 8th Corps, to the evacuation of Cape Helles. He was created C.M.G. 1916 for his services at Gallipoli. He retired on retired pay on the 23rd May 1917. He died on 20th July 1921 at Plymouth.

The auction also includes a rare RRC and bar to Nursing Sister A M Macdonnell.

RRC LG 27 Sep 1901. (Irish Hospital). Bar to the RRC LG 6 Aug 1919. (Matron B.R.C. Aux.Hosp. Perth).

She served in the Boer War and was the only Matron serving with the Irish Hospital along with Nursing Sister E.Walker. Sold with a photocopy of "The Lady of the House" dated 15th April 1909. She was originally from Derry she served in the Boer War and was later Superintendent of the Richmond Hospital. During the Easter uprising she was Matron-in-Charge at the Irish War Hospital Supply Depot at 40 Marrion Square in Dubln, this was was converted into a 50 bed hospital for the wounded at Sir Patrick Dunn's hospital was full.

The bars to the RRC were incepted in 1918 and to date approx 100 have been given.

Lot 225 comprised an interesting trio to Stanley Henry Reginald Van Ryck de Groot

He was from Pietermaritzburg, Natal. Health Officer Accra, 1898; Senior Medical Officer in charge of the Base Hospital Ashanti Field Force, 1900, Mentioned in Despatches. Served as a Civil Surgeon during the Boer War 1901-02; Captain Natal Medical Corps 1906.