Scarce WWI Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross group to Major Lockwood a Canadian surgeon serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps.
DSO In box of issue with integral top bar.
Military Cross Unnamed as issued in box.
1914 Star officially named to: LIEUT. A.L. LOCKWOOD
War and Victory Medals officially named to: MAJOR A.L. LOCKWOOD.
Very fine.
D.S.O. London Gazette June 3rd 1918
Military Cross London Gazette January 1st 1917
Ambrose Lorne Lockwood was born on 30 March 1888 in Westport, a small village about 50 miles north of Kingston, Ontario. He was the son of Hiram Wallace Lockwood and Julia Agnas Lockwood (nee Hanna). Lockwood completed his early education in Westport and high school in Athens, Ontario. Following high school he enrolled in medicine at McGill University. He graduated from McGill in 1910. After graduating from McGill, he did post graduate work in Heidelberg, Germany, specializing in thoracic surgery.
When war was declared, he and a colleague, Captain Hopburn, made their way by the Hook of Holland to England. Both immediately enrolled in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
Lockwood entered France in mid-august 1914 earning the 1914 Mons Star. He pioneered thoracic surgery. In the early years soldiers whose lungs were damaged by shrapnel or gunshot wounds had little hope of survival and were essentially made comfortable as they died. Lockwood, who had studied thoracic surgery knew he could save lives if given the chance. Regrettably, he could not convince his superiors that thoracic surgery could help.
Eventually a soldier, a relative of a senior officer's family, granted Lockwood the permission he needed to perform the surgery. The young soldier survived the war as did countless others who were brought back from the wards and given lifesaving surgery. For his services at the front, he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) for gallantry at Casualty Clearing Stations and the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).
Following the War, he attended the Mayo Clinic for three years furthering his surgical skills. After leaving the Mayo Clinic he moved to Toronto and established his own clinic:
The Bloor Street East Lockwood Clinic in 1922. Over the next 50 years he treated an estimated 400,000 patients. By the age of 65 he had performed an estimated 60,000 operations.
He kept seeing patients until age 89 when he was forced to retire.
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