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Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell Medical Diplomas (4) awarded to Thomas P. J. Grantham: Edinburgh Medical Society diploma conferred on Thomas P. J Grantham, 12 April 1833; London Medical College diploma conferred on Thomas P. J. Grantham; Diploma for Anatomy & Physiology conferred on T. Payne Grantham, 1 May 1834; St. Thomas’s Hospital Diploma for the Principles and Practice of Surgery conferred on T. P. J. Grantham, 1 May 1834, all damaged, fair condition Letter, from the Crimea, written by Dr George Yates, to his brother-in-law, Thomas Miles, dated ‘Camp Nassabchyben on the Black Sea, Turkey, Aug. 29th 1855’ - one sheet of 249 x 197mm., blue paper, folded and written in ink on four sides, one side cross-written; together with original envelope, addressed, ‘Thomas Mills Esquire, 38 Regent Street, Derby, England’, this bearing three Victorian One Penny stamps, letter creased and stained, envelope marked with age, fairly good condition Commission Documents (2), appointing Ann Two Elizabeth Maud Howitt a Lieutenant in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, dated 22 April 1953 and 30 September 1955, these in good condition (8) £40-60 Footnote With the letter is a folder containing copied research on Yates and the British Medical Contingent attached to the Ottoman Army. George Yates (1824-1907), L.S.A. 1852, served with the Anglo-Turkish Contingent in the Crimea and was awarded the Order of Medjidie. Later attained the rank of Surgeon-Major in the British Army.