Lot 1226

Description

The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George, Companion (C.M.G.) neck badge in silver gilt and enamel. In Garrard & Co Ltd, London, case of issue, as awarded to Dr F.V.G.Scholes. Extremely fine.

Awarded in 1939 to Frank Victor Gordon Scholes, Medical Superintendent of the Infectious Diseases Hospital Fairfield, 1910-1948. Born in 1885 at Barnawartha, near Wodonga, educated at Grenville College Ballarat, University of Melbourne, Cambridge University, he was a member of various committees, died Melbourne, 1954. With research.