Rejected on health grounds by the military , Bannerman served as a stretcher-bearer with the Red Cross for four years in France during World War I , earning the Mons Star . He was then employed , part-time , at the Natural History Museum , until his retirement in 1951 , having twice declined the directorship of the British Museum . He was chairman of the British Ornithologists ' Club from 1932 to 1935 , having edited their Bulletin from 1914 – 1915 and was Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Mons Star
1914 Star
David Armitage Bannerman