MINIATURE MEDALS 600
The mounted miniature dress medal group of seven attributed to Colonel R. W. Henderson, Indian Army, late East Kent Regiment
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-8; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902; TIBET 1903-04, no clasp; BRITISHWAR ANDVICTORYMEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf; INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21, mounted as worn, some with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (7) £140 -180
D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918. ‘Henderson, Robert Wynne, Major, Indian Cavalry’. M.I.D. London Gazette 16 January 1918 (Allenby, Egypt); 14 June 1918 (Allenby, Egypt).
Robert Wynne Henderson was born on 20th August, 1874. Commissioned on 10 August, 1894., he took part in the Chitral 1895 operations receiving the Indian General Service Medal with Relief of Chitral clasp; Later served during operations in the Samana and Kurram Valley August– September 1897; Buner and Tirah 1897-98 receiving three further clasps. Henderson served during the South African War in operations in the Transvaal during April-May 1902, whilst employed with Steinaecker’s Horse.
During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Field Force, 16 January 1916-14 June 1918 being mentioned in despatches twice, serving with the 20th Deccan Horse and 7th Cavalry. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 6 February, 1920.
With copied research.
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The mounted group of five miniature dress medals attributed to the Reverend W. Drury, Army Chaplains Department
MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R.; QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Transvaal, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902, claw tightened; 1914 STAR, with clasp; BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £40-60
William Drury was born in Burton, Staffordshire on 19 June 1876, the son of William Frederick Drury, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Burton, and Elizabeth Hannah Drury. He was baptised by his father on 12 July 1876. Educated at Christ’s Hospital, 1885-92, he then attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he gained a B.A. in 1898, and the following year he attended Ridley Hall, Theological College, Cambridge and was ordained a Deacon. Serving as the Curate of St. Thomas’s, Birmingham, 1899-1901, he was ordained a Priest at Worcester in 1900. During 1901-04 he was employed as an Acting Chaplain to the Forces in South Africa. He was then posted as Chaplain to the Forces at Woolwich, 1905-08, gaining a M.A. in 1906; Singapore, 1908-11; Aldershot, 1912-13 and Crownhill, 1913-14. With the outbreak of war, he served with the B.E.F., 1914-17, being Assistant to the Principal Chaplain B.E.F., 1914-15 and Deputy Chaplain General, 1916-18. For his wartime services he was awarded the Military Cross and three times mentioned in despatches. Drury was then appointed Chaplain to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1918-23 and then Chaplain at Shorncliffe, 1923-25. After attachment to the Office of the Diocese of Canterbury, 1925-26, he was appointed Curate of Storrington, 1926-27, after which he was appointed Rector of Binstead in the Diocese of Chichester. He died at Binstead Rectory on 24 October 1943.
With a copied photograph of the recipient in uniform and two folders with extensive research.
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