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7 November 2024

Hammer Price:
£950

Shanghai Volunteer Corps Long Service Medal, silver, reverse engraved ‘C.Q.M.S. G. E. Knight Active 1922-1934’, good very fine £600-£800

Gordon Edwin Knight served with the Royal Engineers during the Great War, and enlisted in the Shanghai Municipal Police in 1919, being transferred to the Municipal Council in 1922. He emigrated to Canada in 1940 and died in 1969.