A WW1 / WW2 R.A.M.C., R.A.D.C. & Special Constabulary (Inspector) Medal Group awarded to Captain Eric Bernard Armitage.

Eric Bernard Armitage was born on the 21st September 1889, at Nottingham, and was training to be a dental surgeon prior to the outbreak of WW1.

Eric was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on the 4th November 1915, joing the Royal Army Medical Corps, and disembarked Alexandria, Egypt, on the 27th February 1916.

At some point during 1921, Eric transfered to the Royal Army Dental Corps, where he was serving at the outbreak of WW2. On the 29th April 1941, he ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers on the grounds of ill health - The london Gazette referrs.

Eric continued to work as a dental surgeon, opening his own practice with John Maitland Somerville, in Regent Street, Nottingham. Eric also served as a Special Contabulary Inspector with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary, and he passed away on the 4th July 1984, at Nottingham.

The medals are mounted for display on original ribbons, sold with copied research, five original named medal boxes of issue ( 2 x WW1, 2 x WW2 & Special Constabulary Long Service Medal), two original Army Council and Home Secretary medal slips, and are as follows -

British War & Victory Medals (no Star entitlement), CAPT. E. B. ARMITAGE.; 1939/45 Defence Medal & War Medal, both unnamed as issued; G.VI Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, additional Long Service Clasps, 1944, 1947, 1949, INSPR. ERIC B. ARMITAGE

Condition, WW1 pair, good fine +, other three medals, nearly extremely fine