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O.B.E. (Military)
Military Cross
British War Medal      CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST.
Victory Medal            CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST.
India General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919 CAPT. W.H.H. LINDQUIST. 1-1 G.R.
Defence Medal
War Medal


William Herbert Horatio Lindquist was born in Calcutta 10 June 1897, son of John Horatio Lindquist of the Bengal Pilot Service.
2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army 29 June 1918, from Cadet College, Quetta.
Lieutenant 1 Jan. 1918, 10th Gurkha Rifles but attached to 1st Gurkha Rifles.
Military Cross Gazette 8 March 1919 “For great gallantry on the 19 Sept. 1918 at Sabieh. Finding that he had lost touch with the battalion on his right and that the enemy were about to counter-attack, he collected the nearest men and charged the enemy thus breaking up the counter-attack.”
Staff College Jan. 1927. Staff Captain, Jullundur Brigade 1928. Act. Lt-Colonel 13 Dec. 1941.
O.B.E. (Military) Gazette 1 Jan. 1944. Temp. Brigadier 1 May 1944 and Director of Civil and Services Censorship, Army HQ India.
Recommendation: "Chief Censor, India. After having acted as Deputy Chief Censor since the outbreak of war, Colonel Lindquist took over charge of Indian Censorship in March 1942. In addition to controlling all Military Censorship in India Command, for all Civil Censorship in India. This involves the direction of 6 major Civil Censorship stations, over 30 Field Censorship units and a number of POW and other special stations and units. The establishment under his control is well over 3000. His work brings him into contact with every Department of Government and it is largely due to his tact and organisational ability that friction usually associated with Censorship has been conspicuous by its absence. Colonel Lindquist has not only performed his very  responsible and exacting duties with marked energy and ability but has also, by unremitting effort, been largely instrumental in building up Indian Censorship in its present high efficiency. It's special value to the Empire's war effort, particularly in the sphere of economic intelligence, has frequently been remaked upon officially by the authorities in the United Kingdom."
Deputy Asst. Adjutant-General 11 Dec. 1945. Retired 1947. Appointed Cadet Commandant of Dundee and Angus A.C.F. April 1948.
Died at Carnoustie 6 Sept. 1976.
Price: £2200

India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier 204. J. GRACE. H M's. 1st BN, 6TH REGT.    £250
John Grace enlisted in the 51st Regiment in 1858 but transferred to the 6th Regiment soon after. Served in the Indian Mutiny, medal confirmed on roll. He was awarded the I.G.S. Medal for service in the Hazara Expedition. He was discharged February 1879, after just over 20 years service.

India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier   2305 M. DOWLING. 81ST REGT.    £250
Michael Dowling was born in Queen's County, Ireland and enlisted January 1847, aged 23. Discharged 1868, received the Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal. Medal confirmed on roll.  

Baltic Medal  Horatio Lindquist. H.M.Ship Edinburgh.  £250  SOLD

Medal engraved in italic lettering. Father of William Lindquist, Gurkha Rifles (above)
Horatio Lindquist was born in 1840, son of William and Amelia. His father was a member of the Bengal Marine Service.
Joined HMS Edinburgh as Master's Assistant April 1854 and left her in June 1856; served in the Baltic Campaign (medal confirmed on roll). Served on HMS Vulture to July 1857, HMS Persian to January 1859 and then HMS Jane until May 1859. June 1859 awarded his Second Mate certificate.
He died in Bangalore, India 14 March 1921, his profession shown as "Port Officer".

O.B.E. (Military) hallmarked
1914 Star              CAPT. D.C. PART. REMOUNT SERV.
Victory Medal         MAJ. D.C. PART (MiD)
British War Medal   MAJ. D.C. PART
Defence Medal
1953 Coronation Medal

Group mounted in wring order. With matching miniatures.
Dealtry Charles Part was born 28 Feb. 1882. Educated at Harrow.
Commissioned 21st Lancers 1902.  Adjutant, Hertfordshire Yeomanry Oct. 1911. Captain, General Reserve of Officers 18 Feb. 1914. Arrived in France 29 September 1914 with the Remounts Service. Temp. Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts, Indian Cavalry Corps 1915-16. Major March 1916. Superintendent, Remount Services 11 July 1916. MiD 15 June 1916. O.B.E. Gazette 3 June 1919 for “services in connection with the war.” Lieutenant-Colonel 16 August 1919.
Became a well-known horse race owner, his horse Morse Code winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1938, ending Golden Miller's five year winning streak. Appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire March 1926. Appointed Lieutenant for the County of Bedford Oct. 1931.
Appointed Commanding Officer of 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Home Guard. Appointed Lord Lieutenant of Bedford 1943.Knighted 1957. Died 9 February 1961.
Price: £600

British War Medal                                   4CL. A-SGN. J.M. STERLING. I.M.D.
Victory Medal                                         A-SGN. J.M. STERLING. I.M.D.
General Service Medal Iraq/N.W. Persia  4.CL. ASST.SGN. J.M. STERLING. I.M.D.
1939-45 Star
Italy Star
Defence Medal
War Medal

1937 Coronation Medal
Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal INDIA 1 CL. ASST. SGN. J.M. STERLING. I.M.D.


John McNeish Stirling was born in Madras 24 January 1892. 
Warrant as Assistant Surgeon 4th Class, Indian Medical Department 20 April 1914. Assistant Surgeon at Kut Military Hospital, Iraq, 1920. At Post Hospital, Kangavar, Persia August 1920 and then Post Directorate Dispensary, Magil, Iraq November 1920. Course at X-Ray Institute, Dehra Dun October-November 1922. MRCS and LRCP London 1925. Medical Officer, Junior Secretarial Establishment, Simla. 1928-31 Resident Medical Officer, Lawrence Memorial Royal Military School, Lovedale, Nilgiris. Lecturer in Hygiene at Royapurem Medical School 1932. Government General Hospital, Madras Senior Assistant Surgeon and 2nd Resident Medical Officer. 1933 Government Royapurem Hospital, Madras Resident Medical Officer. Agency Surgeon, Koraput and MO in charge of Government Hospital to 1938. MO in charge of Government Hospital, Nilgiris 1939. MO in charge Followers' Hospital, Sargodha 1940-41. 
Agency Surgeon, Koraput and Superintendent of Koraput Jail 1942. Indian Military Hospital, Rawalpindi. He died at Brighton 20 October 1955.
Price: £350

1914/15 Star             LT. E.C. DAVENPORT. I.A.R.O. ATTD. 12/CAVY. 
British War Medal       2-LT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
Victory Medal             2-LT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
General Service Medal  Iraq  CAPT. E.C. DAVENPORT.
India General Service Medal Waziristan 1921-24  CAPT. E.C. DAVENPORT, 2/2 PUNJAB R.
Defence Medal
War Medal

1937 Coronation Medal

Special Constabulary Long Service Medal (GV) SERGT. EDWARD C. DAVENPORT

1914/15 Star not entitled - Star renamed.
Edward Charles Davenport was educated at Dulwich College, London. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers 5 Feb. 1915, attached 12th Cavalry. Lieutenant Feb. 1916. Attached Army Remount Department (India) June 1917. Captain Feb. 1919. Attached 2nd Punjab Regiment Nov. 1919. Attached 1/69 Punjabis 1922 and retired same year.
1939 Census shows an Edward Charles Davenport, born 1892, member of the Stock Exchange and Special Constabulary Transport Division living in Croydon.
Commissioned Pilot officer (Admin & Special Duties Branch), RFVR Dec. 1940. Flying Officer Dec. 1941. Flight Lieutenant Jan. 1944. Placed on Non-Active List 1944. 
Price: £350

1914/15 Star           1724 PTE. O.N. SOPER. E. KENT R.
British War Medal     2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER.
Victory Medal           2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER.
India General Service Medal  Afghanistan NWF1919  2 LIEUT. O.N. SOPER. 2/153 PUNJABIS.

Owen Norman Soper was born in Ashford, Kent in 1897. Enlisted in the 5th Battalion East Kent Regiment and went to Mespotamia 9 December 1915. He was wounded and sent to India to recuperate. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, March 1918. Served in Afghanistan 1919 with the 2nd Battalion 153rd Punjabis. He then joined the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway as a Chief Engineer. He returned to the UK in 1948, working for the Ministry of Transport. His obituary states that he was involved in the 1957 Lewisham train crash. On the night of 4 December 1957 in thick fog, a train carrying 1500 people was stopped under a bridge when another train, carrying 700 people, smashed into it. 90 people were killed and 107 injured. While he was not injured, it is said that he suffered severe shock which affected his health. He died 7 March 1960.
Price: £250

British War Medal      LIEUT. B.H. ANDREW.
Victory Medal            LIEUT. B.H. ANDREW.
India General Service Medal  Afghanistan NWF1919  CAPT. B.H. ANDREW. I.A.R.O.

Bernard Howard Andrew was born 14 September 1887 in Penryn, Cornwall.
4 November 1915 Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 2/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in Rawlpindi, India.
MIC shows service in Anden from 27 September 1916.
1939 Cenus he was living in Penryn, Conrwall and was a "Granite Merchant."
He died in Penryn 31 January 1953.
Price: £250

British War Medal     LIEUT. H. THORNE.
Victory Medal           LIEUT. H. THORNE. (MiD)

Harman Thorne was born in Barnstaple in 1886 and in 1911 was a Surveyor in Barnstaple. He enlisted with the 6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 30 July 1915, Indian Army Reserve of Officers. MiD Gazette 27 August 1918. 1939 Cenus he was a Chartered Surveyor and "Army Officer Emergency Reserve." He died 9 September 1962 in Park Lane Nursing Home, Barnstaple. 
Price: £75

British War Medal 2.LT. W.H. MC PHERSON.
India General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919 LT. W.H. MCPHERSON. 5 LT.INFY.

William Hodgson McPherson was born in 1887 in Staveley, Yorkshire but by 1901 he was living in Bishop Auckland, Durham.
Enlisted in the 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Indian Army 22 July 1918.
Price: £180

British War Medal       LT. H. DAVIES.
Victory Medal             LT. H. DAVIES. (MiD)
India General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919  LIEUT. H. DAVIES, 5 S. & M.


Hugh Davies was born in 1894. Worked for Oudh & Rohilkand State Railway, Lucknow, India. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 21 November 1916. Attached No.71 Company, 3rd Bombay, Sappers and Miners, December 1916. Served in East Africa May 1917 to February 1918.
He died at Himachal Pradesh 2 July 1924 and was buried at Simla.
Price: £180

British War Medal  LIEUT. C.H. SEDGLEY.
Victory Medal        LIEUT. C.H. SEDGLEY.
India General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919 LIEUT. C.H. SEDGLEY. S. & T. CORPS.
1939-45 Star
Africa Star 1st Army
War Medal

Charles Henry Sedgley was born 1891 in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Commissioned 2nd Lt. The King's (Liverpool) Regt 24 Sept. 1915 and posted to a Reserve Battalion. To France 26 June 1916. Lt. July 1917.
Transferred to the Indian Army Nov. 1917. I.A.R.O. Captain 24 Sept. 1919.
1920 serving with 3/7th Gurkha Rifles. 1939 living in Newcastle and worked as a secretary for a wine merchants.
Lieutenant, Pioneer Corps 4 Feb. 1941. Pioneer Corps. Captain 12 Feb. 1944. WW2 medals confirmed. He died in Newcastle 6 Dec. 1964.
Price: £275  RESERVED

Queen's South Africa Medal Transvaal 5009 CORPL: H. ALDOUS. 18TH HUSSARS.   £150

Died of disease at Middleburg 17 February 1902.

India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier / Bhootan 624 CORPL. P.F. TAYLOR. BENGAL SAPRS & MINERS   £250

 


1939-45 Star
France & Germany
Defence Medal
War Medal
1937 Coronation Medal
Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal
 REGULAR ARMY
(GVI)  6134492 W.O.CL.III. W.G. WERNHAM. E.SURR:R.
Army Meritorious Service Medal(GVI)                                        6134492 W.O.CL.I. W.G. WERNHAM. E.SURREY R.

William George Wernham was born 9 October 1902 in Kingaston, Surrey and enlisted into the East Surrey Regiment 22 July 1920.
Served in Egypt Nov. 1920 to Nov. 1923; Hong Kong Nov. 1923 to Oct. 1926; India Oct. 1926 to Nov. 1937;
Awarded 1937 Coronation Medal as Drum Major. Sudan Nov. 1937 to Jan. 1939. UK 1939-1945 (Copy red book shows no entitlement to 1939-45 Star or France & Germany Star but he is wearing them in photograph). MSM 1951 Regimental Sergeant Major.
He was discharged 29 October 1952. Joined the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as an Inspector. He died in 1986 in Gloucestershire. When the Battalion was in the Sudan they took part in the making of the film The Four Feathers: "Back from the Sudan. 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment. While in camp at Sabaluka Gorge they cooperated with the producers and artists then on the spot filming A.E.W. Mason's novel "The Four Feathers". 
Price: £330