Orders, Decorations and Medals

An O. St. J. group of three awarded to Honorary Surgeon M. K. Hargreaves

The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s (Brother’s) breast badge, plain silver; Jubilee 1897, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Hony. Surg., M.D.); Coronation 1902, St. John Ambulance Brigade, bronze (Hon. Sur.) mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (3) £160-200

Mark Kippax Hargreaves, M.D. Glasgow 1884; M.B. and C.M. Glasgow, 1879. Member of the British Medical Association; Physician to St. John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; Lecturer and Examiner to the St. John Ambulance Association; Honorary Divisional Surgeon to the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Author of A Practical Manual of Venereal and Generative Diseases. Dr Hargreaves died at his home at ‘Melrose, Kingston Road, Merton Park in November 1918. A plaque commemorating Hargreaves may be found in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Merton Park. With copied research.