Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. N. Burroughes, Royal Army Medical Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with top bar; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, complete with top bar; France, Republic, Medal of Honour, Ministry of War for Epidemics, silver, reverse embossed, ‘M.H.N. Burroughes 1921’, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £1400-1800

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘Capt. (A/Lt.-Col.) Henry Neville Burroughes, M.B., 2/2nd (S. Mid.) Fld. Amb., R.A.M.C., T.F.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917 & 10 July 1919.

Henry Neville Burroughes was born in Ketton, Rutland on 4 May 1877. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, before qualifying with the conjoint diploma at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1903. He was House Surgeon at the hospital before opting for general practice at Hertford Street, Mayfair.

During the Great War he served in France and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 2nd Field Ambulance with the 61st Highland Division. For his services he was twice mentioned in despatches, created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order and was awarded a French Medal of Honour.

After the war he returned to his practice in Mayfair and was especially known for his obstetric work. After a serious illness in 1938 he retired to King’s Old Rectory, Broad Chalke, Wiltshire but returned to medical practice during the Second World War, serving in local military hospitals. Dr Burroughes died on 8 January 1979 at the venerable age of 101 years. With copied research.