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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 328

(x) An Order of St. John group of four awarded to Divisional Surgeon Dr. Gladys E. Wilkinson, St. John Ambulance Brigade

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer's Badge, small type, silver; Defence Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; St. John Service Medal, with 4 additional award clasps (17978. D/Sgn. G. E. Wilkinson. Oldham Cen. Nsg. Div. No.4 Dist. S.J.A.B. 1938), very fine and better (4)

Gladys Elizabeth Wilkinson, the daughter of James Bates Wilkinson, was born on 21 April 1892 and graduated L.R.C.P. from the University of London in 1928. A Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, she served as Assistant Schools Medical Officer to Cheshire County Council and later became Assistant Medical Officer at St. Mary's Hospital, Manchester. Having served since 1912, she was made a Serving Sister of the Order of St. John on 18 November 1938 and promoted Officer 30 April 1946, later retiring to Oakwood House, 2 Oakwood Avenue, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

Gladys died on 2 March 1981, her will bequeathing the sum of £100 to the Corps of St. John Ambulance Brigade, Oldham, in order to purchase a competitive shield or cup, thereafter to be known as the 'Wilkinson Memorial', and is buried at St. John's Church, Alderley Edge; sold with the recipient's St. John Ambulance War Service Badge, gilt and enamel, the reverse numbered '225', with 'East Lancashire' suspension bar, and a Royal Life Saving Society Proficiency Medal, bronze, the reverse engraved 'Gladys E. Wilkinson Oct. 1911', and a Children's League of Pity Medal, white metal, the reverse engraved 'Gladys Wilkinson'.


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