A C.M.G. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. O’Gorman, Indian Medical Service

The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Samana 1891 (Surgn., I.M.S.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, nearly extremely fine (6) £400-500

Patrick Wilkins O’Gorman was born on 1 March 1860, and educated at Calcutta and Edinburgh Universities, and King’s College, London. He served 42 years in Military and Civil Indian Medical Services, having joined the Subordinate Medical Department, Bengal, as Hospital Apprentice in April 1875. He was appointed Surgeon in March 1888 and served on the North West Frontier in the first and second Miranzai expeditions in 1891 (Medal with clasp). During the Great War he served on the North West Frontier of India from 1914 to 1917, and then in German East Africa as Administrative Medical Officer with the Lindi Force, 1917-18 (C.M.G. and despatches London Gazette 7 October 1918). He retired on 11 July 1919, and was for several years a member of the Council and Executive Committee of the Anglo-Indian Temperance Association, London; Member of Council of the Iondian Empire Soiciety and of the India Defence League; co-founder of the Indian Catholic Truth Society, 1918; Founder and Life Hon. Master Catholic Pharmaceutical Guild; Editor of The Catholic Medical Guardian, 1923-34.