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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 221

Family Group:
Honours and Awards Attributed to Dr. S.G. Kirkby-Gomes, Medical Officer, Peking-Mukden Railway
a) China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, Second Class Star, 88mm, silver, silver-gilt, and enamel, reverse lacking pin retaining hook
b) China, Republic, Order of the Golden Grain, Fifth Class breast Badge, 70mm including suspension x 46mm, silver-gilt and enamel
c) China, Republic, Transport and Communications Merit Medal, silver and enamel, minor enamel last, otherwise very fine

Medals Attributed to Miss S.M.H. Kirkby-Gomes, Auxiliary Territorial Service
Miniature Awards: Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, mounted as worn, together with (full-size) unofficial Badges of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and the Red Cross, gilt and enamel, both with top riband pins; and a Star, silver and enamel, with a central red cross surrounded by the motto 'in hoc signo vinces', all worn by the recipient (lot)

China, Order of the Golden Grain, Second Class London Gazette 24.8.1920 Sidney Gerald Kirkby-Gomes, Esq., F.R.C.S. (Ed.)
'In recognition of valuable services rendered.'

China, Order of the Golden Grain, Fifth Class London Gazette 7.3.1916 Sidney Gerald Kirkby-Gomes, Esq., Medical Officer, Peking-Mukden Railway, Peking
'In recognition of valuable services rendered.'

Doctor Sidney Gerald Kirkby-Gomes, was educated at Edinburgh University, and subsequently practiced as a gynaecologist in London; declared Bankrupt in December 1912, he emigrated to China and was appointed Medical Officer of the Peking-Mukden Railway.

Miss Sybil Margaret Holwell Kirkby-Gomes, daughter of Doctor S.G. Kirkby-Gomes, Commissioned Company Assistant, Auxiliary Territorial Service, 7.11.1938, and served throughout the Second World War as a Second Subaltern in the A.T.S.

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£3,500

Sale 15001 Notices
The lot now additionally contains photographs of both recipients