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MEDALS TO THE
INDIAN ARMY
India
General
Service
Medal Chin-Lushai 1889-90 Lieutt A.L. Phillips, S.C.
1914
Star
COL:
A.L. PHILLIPS
British
War
Medal
COL. A.L. PHILLIPS.
Victory
Medal
COL. A.L. PHILLIPS.
Copy research. Alfred Lucian Phillips was born 24 March
1861 in
Bombay, the
son of Lieut.
Alfred
Phillips, 29th
Bombay Native
Infantry.
Commissioned
from Royal
Military
College into
the
Dorsetshire
Regiment
January 1881.
Admitted to
the Indian
Staff Corps
1st July 1881.
Married
Frances
Augusta
Burckhardt at
St. Mary's
Church,
Bathwick 7
September
1892. A son
was born 2
August 1893 in
Murree, Alfred
Jerome Lucian
Phillips went
on to become
an Admiral in
the Royal Navy
(Midshipman
1911, DSO
1941, retired
1944). Assistant
Commissariat
Officer,
Lushai Column
(medal and
clasp).
Awarded the 1903
Delhi Durbar
Medal -
Major A.L.
Phillips,
Supply and
Transport
Corps, Deputy
Director of
Supply, Delhi
Durbar. Lieutenant-Colonel
16 October
1905, serving
as Deputy
Director-General
of
Registration.
1910 Indian
Army List -
Deputy
Director of
Supplies,
India. Awarded
the 1911
Delhi Durbar
Medal -
Colonel A.L.
Phillips,
Supply and
Transport
Corps,
Assistant
Director of
Supplies and
Transport, 8th
Division.
Retired 24
March 1913.
Appointed
Assistant
Director of
Transport for
the Indian
Corps and went
to France 16
September
1914. MIC
shows Colonel
A.L. Phillips,
Staff. His
1914 Star has
some varnish
on the
reverse. He
died at
Milverton,
Weston Park,
Bath 7
December 1940.
Group of
Four: £1875
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Conductor (Lt) Frederick John
Andrews
Indian
Ordnance
Department
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British
War Medal
COND. F.J. ANDREWS. I.O.D.
Victory
Medal
CONDR. F.J.
ANDREWS.
I.O.D.
General
Service
Medal Iraq
W.O.CL.I. F.J. ANDREWS. I.O.D.
Army Long
Service Good
Conduct Medal
(EVII) Sergt.
J.F. Andrews.
Indian Ordce
Dept
Copy
research.
Frederick John
Andrews was
born 7 October
1869 in
Chipping
Sodbury,
Gloucestershire.
Served with
the Indian
Ordnance
Department.
His Long
Service Medal
was awarded
before 1910
and in the
1912 Indian
Army List he
is a Conductor
at Allahabad.
Medal Cards
confirm pair
as Conductor
and GSM Iraq
as Warrant
Officer Class
1, Indian
Ordnance
Department. Indian Army list shows he was
commissioned
Asst Comsy
& Lt 26th
Sept 1921. In the 1939 census he is an Indian Army
Ordnance Corps
Pensioner,
living in
Sevenoaks,
Kent. He died
there shortly
after the
census was
taken in 1939.
Group of
Four:
£320
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1937
Coronation
Medal MAJOR P.W.R. BROWNE I.M.D. £95
Copy
research.
Percy Walter
Roland Browne
was born 26
September 1882
in Poona,
India, son of
George
(Assistant
Clerk,
Ordnance
Office) and
Ellen Browne.
Appointed
Assistant
Surgeon, 2nd
class (ranking
as Conductor),
Indian Medical
Department 16
September
1903. Married
Vida Vital at
Christ Church,
Jubbulpor 29
January 1907.
Served World
War One,
issued British
War and
Victory
Medals.
Commissioned
Lieutenant
(Senior
Assistant
Surgeon) 21
September 1920
Indian Medical
Department.
1922 posted to
Kirkee
Ammunition
Factory.
Captain 7
October 1931.
Stationed at
British
Military
Hospital
Narshera.
Major 7
October 1934,
Senior
Assistant
Surgeon,
Bombay
Establishment.
Retired 26
September
1937.
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Captain Harold Alfred Cecil
Blacker
Indian Army
Reserve of
Officers
and Judge,
Lahore High
Court
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British
War Medal
CAPT. H.A.C. BLACKER
1935
Jubilee Medal
Un-named
1937
Coronation
Medal Un-named
Copy
research.
Harold Alfred
Cecil Blacker
was born in
London 15
August 1889,
educated at
Charterhouse
and Queen's
College,
Cambridge.
Passed the
exams for the
Indian Civil
Service
October 1914.
"Posted to the
Punjab, but he
was on
military
service from
the summer of
1917 to the
end of the
war."
Commissioned
August 1917,
Indian Army
Reserve of
Officers,
Infantry
Branch. Single
British War
Medal
confirmed.
1922 made
Registrar of
the Punjab
High Court.
1925 appointed
sessions
judge.
1930-33 President
of the Punjab
Conspiracy
Case Tribunal.
Probably the
plot to
assassinate
the Governor
of the Punjab
in December
1930.
1934
Additional
Judge of the
High Court,
Lahore.
1937 Puisne
Judge, High
Court, Lahore.
He died 18
July 1944 at
Murree of a
cerebral
haemorrhage.
Group
of Three: £325 RESERVED
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Lieutenant Francis Sheed
Anderson
2-34th Sikh
Pioneers
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India
General
Service
Medal Afghanistan NWF 1919 LIEUT. F.S. ANDERSON, 2-34 SIKH
PNRS.
£295
Copy research.
Francis Sheed
Anderson was
born in
Aberdeen in
1897. His
family owned
the granite
and marble
merchants,
Anderson
Brothers,
Aberdeen.
Enlisted into
the Gordon
Highlanders 3
October 1914
and went to
France5
January 1916.
Promoted to
Sergeant and
returned to UK
2 August 1916
and posted to
No. 1 Officer
Cadet
Battalion.
Commissioned
26 September
1917, Indian
Army Reserve
of Officers.
Lieutenant
September
1918.
1919 Indian
Army List
confirms that
he was serving
with the 2nd
Battalion 34th
Sikh Pioneers.
Left the
Indian Army in
1922 and
returned to
Aberdeen,
where he
married Helen
Wattie.
His address on
his medal card
is "F.S.
Anderson, c/o
Anderson
Brothers,
Granite
Merchants,
Aberdeen.
President of
the Aberdeen
Granite
Manufacturers
Association
1933.
Appointed a
J.P. for
Aberdeen 1935
Town
Councillor and
member of the
Harbour Board
1935 to 1940.
Appointed
First
Divisional
Food Officer
for North East
Scotland,
Ministry of
Food 1940
Director of
Fish Supplies
1943.
Under-Secretary,
Ministry of
Food 1946
British
Representative
for the
formation of
the
International
Wheat Council
and appointed
its first
Chairman
1949-1959.
Created a
C.B.
London Gazette
1 January 1949
Executive
Director of
the
International
Sugar Council
1954
Director of
the British
Sugar
Corporation
Ltd 1960
Chairman of
the Bacon
Market Council
1964.
He died 12
September 1966
in Aberdeen.
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Lieutenant Hume Guildford
Military Works
Department
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