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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 841

The very rare Permission to Wear Warrant for the Chinese Grand Cordon of the Order of Cloud and Banner presented to Lieutenant-General Sir G. G. Jolly, K.C.I.E., KStJ, Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, who gave valuable assistance to the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Second World War.

Foreign Office Permission of Wear Warrant for the Grand Cordon of the Cloud and Banner, presented by the President of the National Government of the Republic of China, dated 25 July 1947 and named to Sir Gordon Jolly, K.C.I.E., with a section of riband of the Order, good very fine, together with a letter related to his resignation of the post of Secretary-General of the National Tuberculosis Prevention (2)

Just two appointments to the Grand Cordon of the Order during the Second World War.

Chinese Order of Cloud and Banner London Gazette 25 July 1947.

Gordon Gray Jolly was educated in Scotland and entered the Indian Medical Service in 1908, serving with them during the Great War (1914-15 Star Trio & C.I.E.). Medical Officer of Delhi in 1921, he was Director of Public Health, Burma from 1922-27 and Deputy Director-General of the I.M.S. from 1933-36, being Director-General from 1939-43. Upon retiring in 1943, he was Lieutenant-General Chief Commissioner of the Indian Red Cross War Organisation 1943-46, during which time he greatly assisted the Chinese Expeditionary Force with its Medical needs in Burma. Besides his Chinese Order, he was K.C.I.E. in 1941 and KStJ. He died on 1 March 1962 in South Africa and is buried in Grange Cemetery, Edinburgh; sold together with copied research.

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