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Auction: 25002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 226

A scarce Indian Army group of six awarded to Major H.T. Davison, Control Commission (B.E.), late 3rd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, North Staffordshire Regiment, who was twice wounded in action in France in 1917

British War Medal 1914-18 (Capt. H. T. Davison.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Lieut. H. T. Davison.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Capt. H. T. Davison. 3-1 Punjab R.); 1939-45 Star (Major H. T. Davison); War Medal 1939-45 (Major H. T. Davison); Iraq, Kingdom, Active Service Medal, unnamed as issued, mounted together as worn, lightly polished with minor contact wear, otherwise very fine (6)

Harold Thomas Davison was born in Liversedge, Yorkshire in on 29 April 1894, was one of five children born to Walter Firth Davison and his wife Anne Davison. Davison was commissioned and posted to the North Staffordshire Regiment in the Great War, with whom he embarked for overseas service in France in March 1917. While serving on the Western Front, he was twice wounded in action whilst in the rank of Lieutenant. Notices of his wounds were published in the Army and Navy Gazette 7 July issue, and later in the Staffordshire Sentinel issue of 26 December 1917.

Davison transferred to the Indian Army sometime after April 1918 and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, 76th Punjabis, a battalion which had been raised during the war in 1917. The unit was later restyled as the 3rd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922. As a Captain, he served in Iraq while attached to the Iraq Army between January 1922 and April 1926, during which time he held the appointment of Instructor at the Iraq Military College. Davison continued to serve in Iraq on attachment from the Indian Army from April 1926 until 15 February 1928 as Director at the Small Arms School of the Iraq Army. During his service in Iraq, Captain Davison was one of only four British Officers of the Indian Army to qualify and receive the Iraq Active Service Medal for specified operations in Kurdistan during 1925.

Not long after his return to India in 1928, and regimental duty with 3/1 Punjab Regiment, Davison married Gertrude Margaret Parton at Bombay on 13 November 1928. He then went on to serve with 3/1 Punjab Regiment in the North West Frontier operations of 1930-31. By 1939, Davison held the rank of Major and with 3/1 Punjab Regiment experienced more active campaign service in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of British India during the Second World War - which specified operations resulted in his awards of the 1939-45 Star and War Medal. Following the end of the war, Davison was employed with the Control Commission (British Element) in Germany, where he died at Lübbecke on 27 May 1946; sold together with copied research and original condolence slip.

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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£320