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1914-15 Star (Lieut: K. D. Wilkinson. R.A.M.C.) good very fine £50-£70
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1914-15 Star (Lieut: K. D. Wilkinson. R.A.M.C.) good very fine £50-£70 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Kenneth Douglas Wilkinson was born at High Legh, Cheshire, on 17 April 1886, the son of the Rev. H. C. Wilkinson, and was educated at Berkhamsted and Birmingham University, qualifying as a doctor in 1912. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front; was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 July 1919); and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He relinquished his commission on 30 September 1921, and was granted the honorary rank of Major. Post-War, he resumed his medical career, and was a consulting physician to both the Birmingham General Hospital and the Children’s Hospital, specialising in cardiology. He acted as group officer for Birmingham and as regional consultant in medicine to No. 9 Region of the Ministry of Health during the Second World War, and died on 12 April 1951, a few days before his 65th birthday. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient; and copied research.
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1914-15 Star (Lieut: K. D. Wilkinson. R.A.M.C.) good very fine £50-£70 --- O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919. Kenneth Douglas Wilkinson was born at High Legh, Cheshire, on 17 April 1886, the son of the Rev. H. C. Wilkinson, and was educated at Berkhamsted and Birmingham University, qualifying as a doctor in 1912. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front; was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 July 1919); and was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He relinquished his commission on 30 September 1921, and was granted the honorary rank of Major. Post-War, he resumed his medical career, and was a consulting physician to both the Birmingham General Hospital and the Children’s Hospital, specialising in cardiology. He acted as group officer for Birmingham and as regional consultant in medicine to No. 9 Region of the Ministry of Health during the Second World War, and died on 12 April 1951, a few days before his 65th birthday. Sold with a postcard photograph of the recipient; and copied research.
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