Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War C.B.E. group of ten awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Jay Gould, Indian Medical Service

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Civil) Commander’s 1st type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-95 (Surgn. Lieut., I.M.S.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Surgn. Lt., I.M.S.) second clasp loose; China 1900, no clasp (Captain, Ind. Med. Service); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Captn., I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Coronation 1902, silver; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, unnamed, silver buckle on ribbon; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, unmounted, very fine and better (10) £1200-1600

C.B.E. London Gazette 27 August 1917. ‘Lieutenant-Colonel Jay Gould, I.M.S., late Commissioner British Red Cross, Mesopotamia.’

Jay Gould was born ‘Jabez’ Gould on 20 January 1867. Qualifying as a M.B. and B.Ch. in 1890, he entered the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant on 29 July 1893. He was promoted to Surgeon Captain in July 1896, Major in 1898 and Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1913. He served in Waziristan 1894-95; in the relief of Chitral 1895; Malakand, 1897-98, with operations in Bajaur and in Mamund country, Utman Khel, Buner, and in the action at Tanga Pass. He saw further service in the Tibet Campaign and in the Great War. For his services in Mesopotamia with the Red Cross, he was awarded the C.B.E. Lieuetenant-Colonel Gould died in Aden on 2 June 1919. Sold with some copied research.