Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Surgeon Commander W. G. Westcott, Royal Navy

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (Surgn. W. G. Westcott, R.N., H.M.S. “Dwarf”); 1914-15 Star (Ft. Surgn. W. G. Westcott, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (Surg. Commr. W. G. Westcott. R.N.) mounted as worn, good very fine (4) £360-£440

M.I.D. not traced.

Warren Guy Westcott was born on 19 August 1874 and qualified as M.R.C.S. Eng. and L.R.C.P. Lond. in 1897 before joining the Royal Navy as a Surgeon at Haslar Hospital on 8 November 1898. He was promoted to Staff Surgeon on 8 November 1906, and to Surgeon Commander on 8 November 1914. He served aboard Dwarf on the Cape station from August 1899 to May 1902. During the Great War he served in H.M.S. Yarmouth 1914-17, H.M.S. Edgar 1917-18, and H.M.S. Monarch 1918-19. He was placed on the Retired List in 1920 and died on 28 May 1944.