Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class neck badge : Colonel J C Hoad

Japanese Order of the Rising Sun third class, with white and red silk neck ribbon. The medal has a cabochon garnet in the centre from which radiate thirty two rays of white enamel edged in silver. The medal hangs from a spray of three paulownia flowers enamelled in mauve with leaves enamelled in green.

Presented by the Japanese Government to Colonel (later Major General) John Charles Hoad. He was attached to the Japanese army when he was sent by the Deakin government to Manchuria in 1904, to observe the progress of the Russo-Japanese war.
The decoration passed into the hands of William and Adeline Schroeder, who ran a boarding house, 'Dalgety' in Park Street, South Yarra, c 1930. The widowed Mrs Hoad is said to have given it to the Schroeders in return for care given to her by them while she was living at Dalgety House.