Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘North Russia Expeditionary Force’ O.B.E., Order of St. Stanislaus group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel T. H. Richmond, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Scottish Hospital

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State (Sgt., Scottish Hos.); 1914-15 Star (Capt., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, hallmarks for London 1921, complete with top bar, mounted as worn; Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd Class neck badge with swords, by Eduard, St. Petersburg, 49 x 49mm., gold and enamel, very fine and better (7) £1100-1300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 February 1920. ‘Capt. (A./Lt. Col.), R.A.M.C. (T.F.)’. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Archangel, North Russia’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919 (operations at Archangel); 3 February 1920 (operations in North Russia, 25 March-26 September 1919, Archangel).

Thomas Heyliger Richmond served during the Boer War as a Sergeant in the Scottish Hospital. as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. he served with distinction in the North Russian Expeditionary Force, for which he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. and Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd Class with swords.