Silver, gilt, enamel.
Size 70 х 45 mm.Collection of the British Museum, London.
Miniature button rosette.
Special case for a foreigners https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-the-rising-sun-in-cases-for-a-foreigners.23184
4th class Rising Sun order awarded in 1909 to the Dr. Joseph Bower Siddall
Collection of the British Museum, London.
Miniature button rosette.
Special case for a foreigners https://asiamedals.info/threads/orders-of-the-rising-sun-in-cases-for-a-foreigners.23184
Official translation of the original award certificate.
We, by the Grace of Heaven, Emperor of Japan, and seated on the Throne occupied by the same Dynasty from time immemorial. Hereby confer upon Dr Joseph Bower Siddall, formerly Medical Officer attached to his Britannic Majesty's Legation in Japan, the Fourth Class of the Imperial Order of the 'Meiji' Era, present the Insignia of the Rising Sun and manifest Our sentiments of benevolence and favour. We have caused the Great Seal of the Empire to be hereunto affixed at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, this twenty-eighth day of the fourth month of the forty-second year of Meiji, corresponding to the two thousand five hundred and sixty-ninth year from the Coronation of the Emperor Jimmu. [Seal of the Empire] Done on the 28th April, 42nd year of Meiji (1909). L.S. (Signed) Sanemasa Ohkimasa, Count, Third Class of the Imperial Order, of Second Junior Court Rank, President of the Bureau of Decorations. This document examined and registered No.3885 in the Book of Imperial Orders. L.S. (Signed) Kanai Yokota, Third Class of the Imperial Order, of Fourth Junior Court Rank, Secretary of the Bureau of Decorations. L.S. (Signed) Yoshikoto Fujii, Fourth Class of the Imperial Order, of Fifth Junior Court Rank, Secretary of the Bureau of Decorations.
Dr. Joseph Bower Siddall with the very same 4th class Rising Sun order.
Dr Joseph Bower Siddall /4 March 1840 – 4 July 1904/ was a British medical doctor who worked as a foreign advisor in Japan and was influential in the use of hygiene in Japanese Military hospitals, and universal vaccination for Smallpox.
He was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom in 1840. he received a Medical degree at Aberdeen University in 1865 and gained entitlement to use Letters MDCM or "Doctorem Medicinae et Chirurgiae Magistrum".
In 1868 he went to Japan as Medical Officer to the British Legation where under the direction of Dr William Willis he took control of the hospital at Yokohama, and later Tokyo during the war of 1869-1869. Here he performed pioneering work in hygiene control, and taught Japanese surgeons techniques of bandaging and splinting.
He was a vocal enthusiast for the Smallpox vaccine. His work on this led to his being awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class in 1909 /he received permission from the British Foreign Office to wear it in 1909/.
He practiced for a time at Ross on Wye, and retired to Devonshire.
He was a founding member of the Royal North Devon Golf Club.
As a cricketer he was a batsman for the Gentlemen of England and among his boasts in old age were that he had played with all the Three Graces and had once smashed the clock at The Oval.
Dr Joseph Bower Siddall /4 March 1840 – 4 July 1904/ was a British medical doctor who worked as a foreign advisor in Japan and was influential in the use of hygiene in Japanese Military hospitals, and universal vaccination for Smallpox.
He was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom in 1840. he received a Medical degree at Aberdeen University in 1865 and gained entitlement to use Letters MDCM or "Doctorem Medicinae et Chirurgiae Magistrum".
In 1868 he went to Japan as Medical Officer to the British Legation where under the direction of Dr William Willis he took control of the hospital at Yokohama, and later Tokyo during the war of 1869-1869. Here he performed pioneering work in hygiene control, and taught Japanese surgeons techniques of bandaging and splinting.
He was a vocal enthusiast for the Smallpox vaccine. His work on this led to his being awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class in 1909 /he received permission from the British Foreign Office to wear it in 1909/.
He practiced for a time at Ross on Wye, and retired to Devonshire.
He was a founding member of the Royal North Devon Golf Club.
As a cricketer he was a batsman for the Gentlemen of England and among his boasts in old age were that he had played with all the Three Graces and had once smashed the clock at The Oval.