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

A Great War M.C. group of seven to Colonel C. H. Budd, London Scottish and Royal Army Medical Corps

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals, with (incorrect) M.I.D. Oakleaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., Territorial, with 2 ‘G.VI.R.’ bars, both dated ‘1951’, mounted as worn, very fine and better (7) £450-550

M.C. London Gazette 26 July 1918: Capt. Charles Herbert Budd, M.B., R.A.M.C.: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in attending to wounded under fire. Under heavy shelling, he went forward and dressed wounded, and dressed one man under full observation of the enemy.’

Charles Herbert Budd was born in 1886 in South West London and educated at King’s School, Canterbury, Oriel College, Oxford and St. Thomas’s Hospital. In 1908 he enlisted as a private soldier in the London Scottish T.A. He was employed at the General Hospital from 24.10.1914 and became honorary anaesthetist at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Budd entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1916 and served in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria and the Aegean between August 1916 and September 1917 and was at times attached to the Royal Flying Corps. Between September 1917 and October 1918 he served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Egypt and Palestine. Whilst attached to the Royal Irish Fusiliers he was mentioned in despatches on 14.6.1918 and was subsequently awarded the M.C. After the war his association with the T.A. continued and he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1934. With the outbreak of the Second World War he formed the 2nd (First Eastern) General Hospital, subsequently renumbered the 20th, and served as its C.O. with the rank of Colonel throughout the conflict. In 1942 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. As a doctor, he served in Cambridge, being in general practice and was esteemed as an obstetrician and anaesthetist. He was for 50 years Doctor of The Leys School, Cambridge. He retired from general practice in 1964.

Sold with card box of issue for Great War pair; mounted group of seven miniature dress medals, identity disc, riband bars and uniform rank insignia.