GROUPS AND SINGLE DECORATIONS FOR GALLANTRY
Thomas Young was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire on 4 June 1893, the son of William Fulton and Euphemia Murray Young. Educated at Glasgow University, he gained the M.B. Ch.B. (Glasgow) 1915; D.P.H. (Cambridge) 1924, and M.D. (Glasgow) 1951. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the Special Reserve on 26 January 1914 and mobilized on 23 April 1915. As a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C. he entered the Dardanelles theatre of war on 11 August 1915. Young was promoted to Captain in October 1915 and served as Acting Major, June- December 1919. He served in the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 1916-18. For his wartime services he was mentioned in Major-General Sir A. J. Murray’s despatches of 18 March 1917.
Young served in Egypt, 1918-22 and was appointed a Temporary Major, January- November 1924 and was promoted to that rank in April 1927. He served in India, 1925-31 and 1934-39. He was appointed Acting Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1939; Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in December 1939; and was promoted to that rank in May 1941. Appointed Acting Colonel in December 1941; Temporary Colonel in June 1942, he was promoted to Colonel in November 1945. During the war he served with the H.Q. Western Command as A.D.H.& P. 1939-40, A.D.H. 1940-41, and D.D.H. 1941-42; then with the British North Africa Command as D.D.H., 1942-45. For his wartime services he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the O.B.E. and from France he was awarded the Medal of Gratitude (1945) and from the U.S.A. the Legion of Merit (1946).
After the war he served as Commandant of the Army School of Hygiene, 1946-48 and was promoted to Brigadier in November 1947. Then with H.Q. FARELF he served as D.D.M.S., January-February 1948 and D.M.S. 1948-49. In 1949 he attained the rank of Major- General and in 1951 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Young was appointed Honorary Physician to the King on 13 January 1950 and Honorary Physician to the Queen on 1 April 1952. He held the position of Director of Army Health at the War Office from 1949 until his retirement in 1953. Appointed Colonel Commandant of the R.A.M.C. 1955-61. Latterly living in Truro, Cornwall, Major-General Young died on 21 August 1979.
Sold with a quantity of original paperwork, including: Order of the Bath bestowal document and accompanying letter, in damaged envelope addressed to Major-General Thomas Young at 18 Grange Road, Bushey, Near Watford’; Statutes of the Order of the Bath; Order of the British Empire bestowal document and accompanying letter, in damaged addressed envelope; M.I.D. Certificates (3) - two in addressed envelopes; Invitation to the Coronation at Westminster, 2 June 1953, in addressed envelope; Coronation 1953 award certificate in addressed envelope; U.S.A. Legion of Merit bestowal document, together with three associated photographs of the presentation; French Medal of Gratitude bestowal document and associated papers; Booklet re the Dinner given by the Army to H.M. The Queen, 27 November 1956, with two associated photographs of the event, and The Army Medical Service Magazine, January 1956 which featured Major-General Young. Together with some copied research.
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A military O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant C. C. Prior, Royal Air Force THEMOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; BRITISHWAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (2 Lieut., R.A.F.); DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS; CORONATION 1953, these unnamed, fine and better (6)£160-200
A rare Second World War North-West Europe operations O.B.E. group of eight awarded to Commander (E.) G. P. Blake, Royal Navy, a Fleet Air Arm pilot who served ashore in 1944 as a Forward Air Control Officer and thence in support of carrier operations off Korea - a distinguished career that was tragically curtailed in early 1953 when his Sea Vampire crashed into the ground near the R.N.A.S. Culdrose THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; 1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR; FRANCE AND GERMANY STAR, clasp, Atlantic; DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS 1939-45; KOREA 1950-53 (Cdr. (E.) G. P. Blake, O.B.E., R.N.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, all but the last two mounted as worn, good very fine or better (8) £600-800
O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1945: ‘For services in the Allied Expeditionary Air Force.’
George Peter Blake, who was born in South Africa in February 1914, entered the R.N.C. Dartmouth in August 1930 and the R.N.E.C. Keyham in January 1935, and was confirmed in the rank of Sub. Lieutenant (E.) in September 1938.Having then seen active service in destroyers, he undertook pilot training in the Fleet Air Arm and received his first posting in April 1941, when he joined No. 881 Squadron. In the following year he took up an appointment at R.N.A.S. Yeovilton, but his career took on a more operational footing with his appointment to the staff of the Flag Officer Naval Air Stations (F.O.N.A.S.) in the summer of 1944, in which role he was embarked for France as a Forward Air Control Officer for the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, a spell of active service that was rewarded by his O.B.E. in January 1945.
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