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Auction: 1006 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 476

Miniature Awards: The C.I.E. Group of Six Attributed to Inspector-General H.A. Carless, Indian Police, Late Indian Army The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion´s (C.I.E.) Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with gilt riband bar; British War Medal; India General Service 1908-35, G.V.R., one clasp, Afghanistan N.W. Frontier 1919; Coronation 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good very fine or better, together with a Cambridge University Lawn Tennis Club prize medal, silver, the reverse engraved ´Trinity Hall, H.A. Carless, D.R. Rutnam, J.J. Lezard, 1922, 1923, 1924´, in Munsey, Cambridge, box (6) Estimate £ 60-80 C.I.E. London Gazette 1.1.1947 Henry Alfred Carless, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Ajmer-Merwara, and Police Adviser to the Honourable the Resident for Rajputana. Inspector-General Henry Alfred Carless, C.I.E., educated at Sherborne School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Indian Army, 29.3.1918; posted to the 120th Rajputana Infantry, 17.7.1918; served with the Regiment on the North West Frontier, 1919; Appointed Indian Police; Advanced Inspector-General of Police, Ajmer-Merwara.

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