British Permissions to Wear Warrant for the Chinese Republican Orders

Permission 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.

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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.
 
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