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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 163

The campaign group of four awarded to Lieutenant P. S. Doubell, Surma Valley Light Horse, late The Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. P. S. Doubell.); Indian Volunteer Forces Officers' Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved ' Lieut. P. S. Doubell, Surma. V.L.H., A.F.I.', with integral top bar; Volunteer Force Long Service (India and the Colonies), G.V.R. (2-Lt. P. S. Doubell. The Surma V.L. Horse. A.F.I.), impressed naming, mounted as worn, very fine (4)

V.D. Indian Gazette 18 April 1925.

Philip Stanley Doubell initially enlisted into 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) and served with them for three years. However, he then moved to India and lived and worked there for much of his life. He worked in the tea trade and was a planter with the Sephinjuri Bheel Tea Company. By 1909, he was working as an Assistant and eventually promoted General Manager by the late 1920s.

While out in India, the draw to military service summoned him once more and he enlisted into the Surma Valley Light Horse, where he started as a Trooper. After six years with them he was promoted Lance Corporal in February 1912, not long before he was granted his commission in March 1913.

During the Great War he was placed on the Supernumerary List in 1917 and in the April he was appointed a Second Lieutenant with the Indian Army Reserve of Officers. He served at this rank with the 40th (Manipur) Company, Indian Labour Corps. He was later promoted Lieutenant in April 1918 with the I.A.R.O..

He continued to serve with the Surma Valley Light Horse after the war and after some reorganisation of the Volunteers, he was reduced to Second Lieutenant before once again being promoted Lieutenant. He was promoted Captain in October 1924 but is recorded as being a Lieutenant on his Indian Volunteer Forces Officers' Decoration, gazetted 1925. He was granted the rank of Honorary Major in April 1928.

When Doubell retired in 1928, he was permitted to retain his rank and uniform of the corps. He returned to England where he lived in Broadstone, Dorset. He died in April 1970, leaving behind his wife, Mabel; sold with copied research.

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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£320