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Auction: 24003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 278

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers' Decoration, G.V.R., with top riband bar (Lt. J. A. Liddell, Upper Burma Bn., A.F.I.), hallmarks for Birmingham 1927, very fine

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 July 1916.

I.V.D. Gazette of India 23 November 1929.

James Alexander Liddell was born on 13 March 1885 at Halifax, Nova Scotia and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 20 November 1914 into the 7th Hariana Lancers. He first served overseas in the Force "D" Mesopotamia theatre from 8 October 1915. The Regiment had fought in the Battle of Shaiba where on 13 April 1916 Major Wheeler received a posthumous Victoria Cross. They would lose a squadron in the actions at Kut-Al-Amara and they returned to Bolarum in October 1916. Liddell rose to Captain (1914-15 Star Trio - issued by the Government of India).

He became Lieutenant with the Upper Burma Battalion on 29 October 1921 at Pyiamana and remained at that rank for his entire service. He later worked for the Steel Bros & Company Limited and died in Kenya in 1955.

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