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Auction: 8023 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 73

The C.B.E. Group of Three to Captain T.P. Kilner, Royal Army Medical Corps, Later Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Oxford, and Honorary Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Army a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Civil Division, Commander´s (C.B.E.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with full size and miniature width neck ribands, in Garrard, London, case of issue b) British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T.P. Kilner), nearly extremely fine, with three University Medals: - Victoria University of Manchester Medal, reverse impressed ´Physiology Lectures, Junior 1908-9 T.P. Kilner´, 60mm, bronze, in Alexander Kirkwood, Edinburgh, box - Victoria University of Manchester Medal, reverse impressed ´Descriptive Anatomy, Junior 1908-9 T.P. Kilner´, 60mm, bronze, in Alexander Kirkwood, Edinburgh, box - University of Liege Medal, reverse engraved ´A Monsieur le Professeur T. Pomfret Kilner, Mars 1958´, 60mm, bronze (3) Estimate £ 300-350 C.B.E. London Gazette 1.1.1946 Thomas Pomfret Kilner, Esq., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Oxford. ´´For services to the Ministry of Pensions.´´ Captain Thomas Pomfret Kilner, C.B.E., (1890-1964) was educated at Queen Elizabeth´´s Grammar School, Blackburn, and Manchester University. He was employed as a Senior House Surgeon, Manchester Royal Infirmary, when War broke out in 1914, and the following year was Commissioned Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force), 24.8.1915; he served on the Western Front as Surgical Specialist, No. 4 General Hospital, British Expeditionary Force, 1918. The War over Kilner pursued his career as one of the pioneers of modern plastic surgery, furthering the techniques invented during the War; his first appointment was as Plastic Surgeon at Queen Mary´´s Hospital for Face and Jaw injuries, London, 1919, and over the next three decades held a number of different jobs, including Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton, 1931. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Kilner was appointed Officer in charge of the Plastic Surgery Division, Ministry of Pensions (C.B.E. 1946). The War over, he was appointed Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Oxford, with a Fellowship at St. John´´s College; and later was Honorary Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Army, 1952-55. He was twice President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, 1948 and 1955.

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