A Small Collection of Medals to Naval Surgeons

The Great War and Second World War group awarded to Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ingleby Mackenzie, K.B.E., C.B., Medical Director-General of the Royal Navy and later Assistant Managing Director of Arthur Guinness

The Order of the British Empire, K.B.E. (Military) 2nd type, neck badge and breast star; The Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) neck badge; The Order of St John of Jerusalem, breast star of a Knight of Grace, hairline cracks to enamel of two points; British War and Victory Medals (Surg. Lt. R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Italy Star; Defence & War Medals; Coronation 1953, the last ten mounted as worn, generally good very fine and better (14) £900-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Naval Surgeons.

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Keneth Alexander Ingleby Mackenzie was born on 19 August 1892 and educated at Repton, Trinity College, Oxford, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (B.A. 1914, B.M., B.Ch., Oxon, 1916; M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., 1917; Willett Medal for operative surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1916). He joined the Royal Navy Medical Service in 1916 and served in the Grand Fleet, 1916-18. During the War of 1939-45 he served as Fleet Medical Officer in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Far East Fleets, being promoted to Surgeon Captain in 1942. He was Senior Medical Officer, Medical Section, R.N. Hospital, Haslar, from 1944 to 1947, and Medical Officer-in-Charge of the R.N. Hospital at Chatham from 1948 to 1952. He was appointed Honorary Physician to the King, and promoted to Surgeon Rear-Admiral in 1948, and to Surgeon Vice-Admiral in 1952. He held the appointment as Honorary Physician to the Queen, and as Medical Director-General of the Navy, from 1952 until his retirement from the Navy in 1956. Created a C.B. in 1951, and K.B.E. in 1953, he was appointed Assistant Managing Director of the brewing company Arthur Guinness, Son & Co. Ltd. in 1956, and held that position until his death on 17 January 1961.