MEDALS TO THE INDIAN ARMY
India General Service Medal Burma 1887-89 985 Sepoy Bujan, Magwe Mil Police Bn. £120
India General Service Medal Northwest Frontier / Bhootan 624 CORPL. P.F. TAYLOR. BENGAL SAPRS & MINERS £250
India Medal Punjab Frontier 1897-98 9812 Rifleman Dallu Thapa 1st Bn 2d Goorkha £195
India Medal Punjab Frontier 1897-98 / Tirah 1897-98 1696 Riflmn Padamsing Thapa, 2/4th Gurkha Rifles £175
India Medal Punjab Frontier 1897-98/Tirah 1897-98 1645 Rfmn Dalbahadur Thapa 2d Bn 4th Gurkhas £175
East India Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps.
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. 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 (JFW)
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 (JFW)
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 (JFW)
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 (JFW)
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 (JFW)
British
War Medal LT. H. DAVIES.
Victory
Medal LT. H. DAVIES. (MiD)
India
General Service Medal Afghanistan NWF1919 LIEUT. H. DAVIES, 5 S. &
M.
Price: £180 (JFW)
British War Medal DY. COMSY. E. MORRIS.
Victory Medal DY. COMSY. E. MORRIS.
General Service Medal Iraq LIEUT. E. MORRIS.
Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal Sub Condr E. Morris S. & T. Corps
Edward Morris was born 1 April 1874. In 1907 shown as Sub-Conductor, Supply & Transport Corps, Peshawar.
Price: £250 (JFW)
Victory Medal 61080 SJT. W.F. ENEVER. R.A.
Efficiency Medal India SJT. W.F. ENEVER. SIND RIF. A.F.I. bar
William Frederick Enever was born in London in 1894. WWI medals issued on Royal Field Artillery roll but also notes "Indian Unattached List."
Efficicency Medal awarded September 1933. In 1945 was a member of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and was living in Karachi.
He died 3 December 1966 in London.
Price: £150 (JFW)
India General Service Medal Waziristan 1919-21 LIEUT. J.E.S. BUCKLEY, 2-152 PJBIS.
1939-45 War Medal
John Frederic Sydney Buckley was born 22 August 1899. Qualified as a solicitor.
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant September 1918, Unattached List for Indian Army. 1919 attached 2nd Rajput Light Infantry. Resigned commission 1921 and returned to Hale, Cheshire. January 1926 Lieutenant, 7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (lived in Altringham). February 1930 resigned commission. Commissioned Pilot Officer, R.A.F. November 1941. Relinquished commission (ill health) October 1943 (Flying Officer). He died 1987 in Hampshire.
Price: £160 (JFW)
George Stanley Dingavan was born in Lucknow, India 28 November 1885, son of Surgeon S.G. Dingavan. Admitted to the Indian Medical Department 10 April 1907 Assistant Surgeon. Served with 73 Battery, Royal Field Artillery (Lahore Division) September 1914 (entitled to 1914 Star trio) to May 1915. To Mesopotamia 1916, 31st Stationary Hospital, Indian Section. July 1921 at 15th British Staging Section, Kalabagh. To Waziristan Field Force. Resigned 1921. Subsidised Medical Practioner, Tantabin, Burma. September 1939 wrote to the Director of Medical Services, Simla, offering his services in Burma, India or overseas as required. Before any paperwork could be done, he died of malaria 1940 and is buried in Insein, Burma.
Simla Rifles, Auxiliary Force India.
Medal Gazetted 8 December 1950. Ceylon Light Infantry. Naming is lightly engraved.
2780 SEPOY SULTAN ALI, 20 INFY. £15
1020 SEPOY MARDAN ALI, 53 SIKHS. £15
3247 SEPOY NAINAB KHAN, 92 PJBIS. £15
3345 SEPOY KASHAM KHAN, 92 PJBIS. £15
3009 SEPOY MARDON ALI, 92 PJBIS £15
4558 SEPOY NUR HUSSAIN, 1-113 INFY. £15
1939/45 War Medal 3929279 SHAKI CHAND £12
1939/45 War Medal MTS/807468 SEP. SHEO LAL, R.I.A.S.C. (M.T.) £12
1939/45 War Medal 180639 SWEEPER HALIDI. £10 naming rubbed, unit erased
