Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Family group:

A Great War O.B.E. pair awarded to Major G. R. Bruce, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War Medal 1914-20 (Major) good very fine

Three: Acting Sergeant F. M. Bruce, Middlesex Regiment

1914-15 Star (2517 Pte. (A. Sjt.), Middx. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2517 A. Sjt., Middx. R.) good very fine and better (5) £80-100

O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

George Robert Bruce was born in July 1884 and was educated at Dumfermline High School, St. Andrew’s and Edinburgh University. Subsequently appointed a Medical Officer to the Borough of Jarrow-on-Tyne, he served as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (S.R.) during the Great War. Initially employed as a Specialist Sanitary Officer at Wylye Valley, Salisbury Plain, Bruce appears to have served in a similar capacity on Malta later in the War.