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MEDALS TO THE
INDIAN ARMY
British War Medal
CAPT. J.D.
DREW.
Victory
Medal CAPT. J.D. DREW.
India
General
Service
Medal Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 CAPT.
J.D. DREW.
1-22 PJBIS.
Defence
Medal
Unnamed
Special
Constabulary
Long Service
Medal
(GVI) Long
Service
1941/Long
Service 1945
JOHN
DREWE.
John
Denys Drew was
born in
Starcross,
Devon 28 April
1886. He
followed his
father into
business as a
Surveyor and
Estate Agent.
He married
Marie Rose
Clark in
February 1926;
the report in
the Devon and
Exeter Gazette
stated: “On
the outbreak
of war he
enlisted in
the 4th
Battalion
Devon
Regiment, and
proceeded to
India with the
1/4th
Battalion.
Given a
commission in
the Indian
Army Reserve
of Officers,
in July 1915,
he was
attached to
the 19th
Punjabis, and
served in
Mesopotamia.
He was then
attached to
the 1/22nd
Punjabis in
South Persia,
with which
regiment he
remained until
after the
action at, and
capture of,
Spin Baldak on
the Frontier
for which he
received medal
and clasp. Mr.
Drew was then
attached to
the Staff of
the Corps as
G.S.O. III,
operating from
Quetta until
demobilised in
October 1919.
He is the
popular
captain of the
Starcross and
Kenton clay
pigeon club
and is a
vice-president
of the
football
club.” He had
been promoted
to Major 20
July 1919.
He died 20
October 1966
in Exeter.
Group of
Five: £300
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Lieutenant Alfred Ewart Cleator
61st Pioneers
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British War
Medal
2 LIEUT. A.E. CLEATOR.
Victory
Medal
2 LIEUT. A.E. CLEATOR
India General Service Medal Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 LT. A.E. CLEATOR,
1-61 PNRS.
Defence
Medal
Unnamed
Alfred Ewart Cleator was born 1891 and was a
school teacher, working at Chaucer Road Council
School 1914-15 and then Long Street Council
School, Fleetwood 1915. He enlisted into the
Royal Army Medical Corps and was then
commissioned into the Indian Army. To
Mesopotamia December 1916. Served with the
1/61st Pioneers (King George's Own) in the
Afghan War 1919. In 1939 he was an Assistant
School Master in Fleetwood, Lancashire, where he
was Head Warden, ARP during World War Two. He
died in Fleetwood 1 January 1953.
Group of Four: £275
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Major Montague Sheridan Young
14th Murray's
Jat Lancers
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1914/15
Star
CAPT. M.S.
YOUNG, 14/LANCERS.
British War Medal
CAPT. M.S. YOUNG.
Victory
Medal CAPT. M.S. YOUNG.
India General Service Medal Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 MAJ. M.S. YOUNG. 14 LNCRS.
Montague Sheridan Young was
born 1883 in Roehampton, Surrey. Royal Military
College 1902. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Manchester
Regiment April 1903. Transferred to Indian Army,
Lieutenant 14th Murray's Jat Lancers June 1906.
Captain March 1912. Married Elaine Shaw 12 April 1914
in St. Thomas's Church, Bombay. The regiment served on
the North West Frontier until 1916 when it moved to
Mesopotamia. Appointed Acting Major while commanding a
Depot Nov. 1917 to May 1918. He died in Tenterden,
Kent 8 August 1953.
Group of Four: £400
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Lieutenant Brian Relton Harman
110th Mahratta
Light Infantry
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British
War Medal
LIEUT. B.R. HARMAN.
Victory Medal
LIEUT. B.R. HARMAN.
Fauconberge Swimming Medallion Championship 1914:
B.R. Harman
Brian Relton Harman was born 2 December 1897 and was
educated at Beccles Grammar School, becoming a merchant
clerk. He enlisted into the Inns of Court O.T.C. in
January 1916. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the
3rd Battalion East Kent Regiment. Reported wounded 9
April 1917 in trenches at Loos. Transferred to the
Indian Army 1917 and left for India in August
1917. Served with the 110th Mahratta Light
Infantry, then attached 123rd Outram's Rifles and later
attached 125th Napier's Rifles. He died of
bronco-pneumonia at Cairo, Egypt 4 November 1919 and is
buried at Cairo War Memorial Cemetery.
Pair & medallion: £175
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Captain Frederick William
Willard
82nd Punjabis
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British
War Medal
CAPT. F.W. WILLARD.
Victory Medal
CAPT. F.W. WILLARD.
India General Service
Medal Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919/Mahsud
1919-20/ Waziristan 1919-21 LT. F.W.
WILLARD, I.A.R.O.. 82 PJBIS.
Frederick William Willard was born in Bombay 14 August
1891, son of William and Beatrice Willard. Commissioned
2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army Reserve of Officers 20 June
1917. Lieutenant 20 June 1918. Appointed Brigade Major
30 June to 29th October 1920. Captain 18 January 1927.
Major 11 August 1931. He relinquished his commission
January 1935. He died in Surrey in 1956.
Group of Three: £350 RESERVED
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Captain Reginald Walter Wells
Supply &
Transport
Corps
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British
War Medal
CAPT. R.W. WELLS.
Victory Medal
CAPT. R.W. WELLS.
General Service
Medal Iraq
CAPT. R.W. WELLS.
Mounted in wrong order. Reginald
Walter Wells was born 4 December 1893 in Calcutta, son
of William and Ellen Wells. Attached Supply and
Transport Corps July 1916. Serving with 3rd Porter Corps
1919. Captain 1 July 1920. Medal roll states that he
served with the Supply and Transport Corps “Force 'D'
19-10-16 to 30-3-21”. His medals were sent to him as
“Assistant Joint Agent, Macneil & Co, Barisal, East
Bengal.” This company was involved in shipping in India.
He married Gladys Hamilton-Marshall in Simla 2 December
1925. He died in Lancing, Sussex 28 August 1966.
Group of Three: £285
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Lieutenant John Michael Dennis
O'Brien
I.A.R.O.
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British
War Medal
2 LIEUT. J.M.D. O'BRIEN.
India General Service
Medal Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919
LT. J.M.D. O'BRIEN, I.A.R.O.
John Michael Dennis O'Brien was born 1892 and worked as
a clerk for the Great Western Railway in Paddington
1914. He enlisted into the 1/10th Battalion Middlesex
Regiment. He was commissioned into the Indian Army
Reserve of Officers 15 October 1918. He served in the
Afghanistan War from April 1919. Relinquished his
commission 1922. On return to UK he resumed work for
G.W.R. and is noted as “loyal during General Strike May
1926.” He retired in 1953. He died in Westcliffe-on-Sea,
Essex 25 January 1970.
Pair: £195
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Lieutenant Frank Cruikshank
Mack
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British
War Medal
2-LT. F.C. MACK.
Victory Medal
2-LT. F.C. MACK.
India General Service Medal
Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 LT. F.C. MACK, 114
L.C.
Volunteer Force Long Service
Medal
PTE. F.C. MACK. ASSAM V.L.H., A.F.I.
Frank Cruikshank Clark was born 1883 in Dunbartonshire.
Went to India in 1913. Worked as a Tea Planter. Indian
Army Reserve of Officers. Lieutenant 24 October 1919.
Served with 114 Labour Company in Afghanistan 1919.
Married Marjorie O'Neill in Assam in January 1923.
Awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal May 1927. Died
1949 in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Group of Four: £400
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Afghanistan Medal Kandahar Sowar
Saifoodin 3rd
Punjab
Cavy £250
Sowar =
Trooper, 3rd
Punjab
Cavalry. |
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Afghanistan Medal BHISHTI RAHDOO 27TH
P.N.I.
£150
A water
carrier
serving with
the 27th
Punjab Native
Infantry.
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Afghanistan Medal Private Luximon Saivonth 13th
Regt.
Bo:N.I.
£150
13th Bombay
Native
Infantry. |
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India General
Service Medal Samana 1891 347
Sepoy Rabbal
1st Punjab
Infy £185
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India General
Service Medal Samana 1891 2131
Rifleman Lalia
Sarkhi 1st Bn
4th Gurkha
Regt. SOLD |
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India
Service Medal 1895 Punjab
Frontier 1897-98/Malakand
1897/Waziristan 1901-2
621 Sepoy
Naudhu 38th Bl Infy
£275
38th Dogra Regtiment |
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India Service
Medal
(EdVII)
Waziristan
1901-2 2152 Sepoy Shandar 5th Pjb Infy £180 |
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India General
Service Medal 1908 North West
Frontier 1908 Erased
Naming
£50
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India General Service Medal
1908 Waziristan
1919-21 87 NK. FAZAL AHMAD, 3-152
PJBIS. £60
The 152nd Punjabis were formed in May 1918
and disbanded in April 1921.
India General
Service Medal 1908 North West
Frontier 1930-31
210623 A.ORDY. GULAB DIN. 1 I.H.C.
£52
Acting Orderly, Indian
Hospital Corps.
India General
Service Medal 1908 Mohmand
1933
PTE. BHISHTI MOHD. FAZAL.
I.S.C. £60
Indian Signal Corps.
India General
Service Medal 1908 North West
Frontier 1935
4464 NAIK FATEH KHAN. 5-1 PUNJAB
R. £50
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Colonel Alfred Lucian Phillips
Indian Army
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India
General
Service Medal
(1854-95)
Chin-Lushai
1889-90
Lieut. A.L.
Phillips. S.C.
1914
Star
COL.
A.L. PHILLIPS
British
War
COL.
A.L. PHILLIPS
Victory
Medal
COL. A.L.
PHILLIPS
Colonel Alfred
Lucian
Phillips was
born on 24
March 1861 in
Bombay, he was
commissioned
from the Royal
Military
College into
the
Dorsetshire
Regiment in
January 1881,
and later
admitted to
the Indian
Staff Corps on
1 July that
year, advanced
to Assistant
Commissariat
Officer in the
Lushai Column
and qualified
for the 1903
and 1911 Delhi
Durbar medals
where he was
serving as
Colonel of
Supply and
Transport, 8th
Division. He
retired from
service in
1913 but
reengaged for
service out
the outbreak
of WWI and
went to France
on 16
September
1914, after
the war
Phillips
retired from
service and
resided in
Milverton,
Weston Park,
Bath and died
on 7 December
1940.
Group of
Four: £895
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Lieutenant Hume Guilford
Rochfort
Military Works
Service
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India General Service Medal
Afghanistan
N.W.F.1919
Lt.
H.G. ROCHFORT, M.W.S. £250
Captain Hume Guilford Rochfort was born in 1888 in
Hyderabad, Deccan India, educated a St. George's Grammar
School, and a two year course in Civil and Mechanical
Engineering at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering
(1911-1913), in 1914 he was engaged as Assistant
Engineer in charge of Nirmal Sub-division Adilabad
District (Roads & Buildings) including the
reconstruction of the Nagpur road in 1916. In 1917 he
was commissioned Lieutenant in charge of the Military
Works as Garrison Engineer, Tank, North West Frontier
Province, constructing factories, railway lines, roads,
wells etc and in 1918 and 1919 he was promoted to
Captain and put in charge of Manjai Cantonment, erecting
40 barracks and 6 officers' quarters in addition to 12
miles of roads. Research includes a full list of the
projects on which he worked during the war.
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Lieut. Claude Boileau Mosse
116th
Mahrattas
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1914/15 Star
LIEUT. C.B.
MOSSE,
1/116/MAHRATTAS.
British War Medal
LIEUT. H.F.G. PITT.
Victory
Medal
LT. C.B. MOSSE.
Defence
Medal
Un-named
1939-45
War Medal
Un-named
1937
Coronation
Medal Un-named
Copy research.
Claude Boileau
Mosse was born
8 October 1893
in Mhow,
India, the son
of Charles
George
Drummond
Mosse,
Surgeon-Captain,
Army Medical
Staff.
Commissioned
from Royal
Military
College as 2nd
Lieutenant,
Indian Army
Unattached
List 24 August
1912. Posted
to 116th
Mahrattas 2
November
1913.His MIC
shows that he
qualified for
the 1914/15
Star in the
Tochi Valley
28 November
1914.
General Staff
Officer 3rd
Grade 24 May
1919 - Staff
Captain 16
February 1920
- Major 24
August 1929 -
Lieutenant-Colonel
23 February
1936
1939 census
living in
Weymouth, "on
leave pending
retirement,
Lieut. Col.
Indian Army.
Air Raid
Warden."
Retired 23
February 1940.
He died in
Weymouth 23
November 1975.
NOTE BRITISH WAR
MEDAL IN ABOVE
GROUP IS NAMED
TO PITT: Copy research.
Horace
Frederick
George Pitt
was born 1885
in
Northampton.
The family
moved to India
soon after, as
a brother,
Hubert Cyril
Pitt, was born
in Bombay in
1887. He
married Ellen
Maude
Backhurst in
Secunderabad
23 January
1907. His
occupation was
"Fireman,
H.H.N.G.S.
Rlwys." (Hiss
Highness
Nizam's
Guaranteed
State
Railway). A
daughter,
Phylis Blanche
Pitt, was born
in Dornakul,
India in May
1908. In 1924
he visits
England and is
listed as a
railway
official.
Awarded the
Volunteer
Force Long
Service Medal
(Indian Army
Order 35 of
1927): Private
H.F.G. Pitt,
1st Battalion
Baroda and
Central India
Railway
Regiment,
A.F.I.
Group of
Six:
£395 RESERVED
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Lieut-Colonel William Reginald
Warden
Madras
Regiment, Jat
Regiment
and Royal Air
Force
Volunteer
Reserve
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India General Service Medal North West Frontier 1930-31 MAJOR W.R. WARDEN,
2-9 JAT R.
Defence
Medal
Un-named
1939-45 War Medal Un-named
Copy research.
William
Reginald
Warden was
born in
Secunderabad,
India 27
December 1885,
the son of
Lieutenant
Edmund Warden,
Madras Staff
Corps.
Educated in
England, he
was
commissioned
into the
Indian Army,
Unattached
List January
1905. Posted
to the 83rd
Wallajahbad
Light Infantry
June 1907.
He married
Marion
Kathleen
Kowsell at St.
John's Church,
Cannanore,
India 5
September
1914. MIC shows he was issued 1914/15 Star, British War Medal,
Victory Medal
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