Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘Civil Division’ O.B.E. group of four awarded to Captain A. R. Grant, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt, in Royal Mint case of issue; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. R. Grant. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. R. Grant). last three mounted as worn and housed in a fitted case, good very fine and better (4) £180-£220

O.B.E. London Gazette 15 June 1945.

Alistair Robertson Grant was born on 16 April 1890 at Portlethen. He served as a Trooper in the 2nd Scottish Horse before graduating MB, ChB in 1913 and served for a year at Whittingham Mental Hospital, Preston. At the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps, entering the French theatre on 19 February 1915. During the War he saw service with the 2nd Highland Field Ambulance, 6th Cavalry Field Ambulance, and as Medical Officer of the 4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He was discharged from the Army in 1919, with the rank of Captain. Post-War he returned to Whittingham and in 1945 was awarded the O.B.E. for services to medicine. Captain Grant’s papers, including those relating to fighting in France are held in the National Army Museum, and are quoted in ‘Broken Men – Shell Shock, Treatment and Recovery in Britain 1914-30’ by Fiona Reid.