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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 216

United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon, China 1900 (Robert Elphinstone Dalrymple Goldingham No. 619), very fine, with top bronze ´pagoda´ suspension brooch, lacking riband Estimate £ 800-1,200 Major Robert Elphinstone Dalrymple Goldingham, O.B.E., born 1874; educated at Cheltenham College; commissioned Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, 1894; served during the Third China War 1900, and was present at the Relief of Pekin; Captain 1.4.1904; Major 30.10.1914; served during the Great War on the Western Front, 19.5.1916-11.11.1918 (O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919; twice Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 14.12.1917 and 7.7.1919; Belgium, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 12.7.1918).

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£1,750