An Interesting Great War Medical Services 1914 Star Medal Group of Four Including a Greek Order of the Redeemer to an Officer who Post War, Went on to Become the Coroner of the Eastern District of London, 1914 Star medal, ‘W.R.H. HEDDY B.R.C.S. & O.ST.J.J.’, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem on the ribbon of the Victory medal, ‘CAPT. W.R.H. HEDDY’, Kingdom of Greece, Order of the Redeemer, 2nd type, Knight’s breast badge in Pomonis, Athens fitted case of issue. Accompanied by mounted group of miniature medals consisting, 1914 star with August-November clasp, British War and Victory medals with M.I.D. emblem, Greek Order of the Redeemer and the Greek medal for the Greco-Turkish War of 1912-13.Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 10th July 1919.We have not been able to confirm the award of the Order of the Redeemer in the London Gazette, but this is not unusual. William Reginald Huleatt Heddy was born in London on 30th December 1890, his father William Senior being a surgical physician. William followed in his fathers’ footsteps attending Dover College in 1906and in 1908 he entered Middlesex Hospital to study medicine becoming an anaesthetist in 1911. In January 1914 he received his medical diploma of L.R.C.P. and a month later gained his surgical diploma of M.R.C.S.On the outbreak of war in August 1914 William served as a Medical Officer with the British Red Cross in the Lille Mobile Unit landing in France ion 25th October 1914. Commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps in July 1915 with the 1st London (City of London) Field Ambulance, he was promoted to Captain in January 1916. In 1918 he wrote an article for the journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps entitled ‘Anaesthetics in the Field’ based on his war time experiences. He resigned his Commission in July 1920 and went on to serve as a coroner. On 25th January 1934 he was appointed Assistant Deputy Coroner, in 1938 he was Deputy Coroner for St. Pancras and 2 years later he was appointed Coroner of the Eastern District of London. In this roll he was present at the autopsy of Josef Jakobs, a German spy who has the dubious honour of being the last person to be executed in the Tower of London.William retired in March 1956 and died in March 1972 in Ealing, London.It is interesting to note that his son, Brian Huleatt Heddy, born in 1916, served in the SOE during the Second World War and at one point was the Consul for the States of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.