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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 563

(x) The group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Rothera, Deputy Chairman of the South Indian Railway at Madras, and Director of East Indian Distilleries

Knight Bachelor's Badge, 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for London 1926; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer's 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; British War and Victory Medals, with copy M.I.D. oak leaves; General Service Medal 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lt. Col. P. Rothera); Jubilee 1935, the group court mounted, the third and fourth erased, the fifth with part erasure after naming, nearly very fine (6)

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1 January 1931 (Agent, South Indian Railway, Madras).

Percy Rothera was born on 9 February 1877, the son of Charles Lambert Rothera. Educated at Rugby School , he joined the South Indian Railway as an Assistant Engineer in 1898. He served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force during the Great War, before forging a successful career with the Indian Railways. A golfer and fisherman, he returned to home and resided at St James Court, Buckingham Gate, S.W.1., passing away on 2 September 1940.

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