Lieutenant-General Ji Yiqiao Award Cross/戢翼翘赠十字章

Cross was designed after the Japanese Red Cross Society merit order https://asiamedals.info/forums/japanese-red-cross-society-medals.652/.
Another Chinese Republican award designed after Japanese Red Cross merit order https://asiamedals.info/threads/zhang-xueliang-commander-in-chief-commemorative-medal.24192/.

Copper.
Size 55 mm.

Reverse

戢翼翘贈 - Presented by Ji Yiqiao

 

Ji Yiqiao /戢翼翘; 1885-1976/was born in Hubei. He graduated from a Japanese military academy in 1911. He joined the Shanghai Revolutionary Force. From 1914 to 1922, he was a military instructor in Yunnan. In 1922, he participated as a staff officer in the major campaigns from 1924 to 1925. He became the Chief-of-Staff to Zhang Xueliang and resigned after the Mukden Incident. After the Sino-Japanese War, he became a leader of the Democratic Socialist Party and a member of the National Assembly. He died in Taipei in 1976.

Promotions

1912-11-01 Major-General (Beiyang Government)
1927-06-06 Lieutenant-General (Beiyang Government)
1935-04-05 Lieutenant-General

Service

Commanding Officer 4th Brigade, 2nd Division
Commanding Officer Western Yunnan Garrision
Commanding Officer Chuxiong Garrison Command
Chief of Training Department, Yunnan Southern Army Military School
1922-XX-XX Chief of Staff, Xing Pacification Army; Chief of Staff 1st Army; Commanding Officer 45th Brigade
1926-XX-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 10th Army
1927-XX-XX Commanding Officer 29th Army
1928-XX-XX Senior Staff Officer, Northeastern Border Defence Army
1931-XX-XX Chief of Staff, Beijing Field Headquarters
1931-XX-XX Member of the Military Advisory Council; Member of the Northeastern Financial Committee
1933-XX-XX Member of Beijing Military Affairs Committee
1934-XX-XX Instructor at the Army College