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Auction: 9033 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 233

Miniature Awards: The C.I.E. Group of Eight Attributed to Colonel S.C.F. Peile, Inspector General of Police in Burma The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion´s (C.I.E.) badge, gold and enamel, with top riband bar; Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, with silver ribbon buckle; Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp; India General Service 1854-95, four clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-9, Burma 1889-92, Chin Hills 1892-93; King´s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st ´coinage head´ type, good very fine, mounted as worn (5) Estimate £ 220-250 C.I.E. London Gazette 1.1.1901 Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon Charles Frederick Peile, Indian Staff Corps. Colonel Solomon Charles Frederick Peile, C.I.E., born Inverness, Scotland, December 1855, the son of General Peile, late Royal Engineers, and educated at Rugby; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 109th Foot (Bombay Infantry), August 1873; Lieutenant, August 1874; transferred Bengal Staff Corps, October 1875; Appointed Wing Officer, 2nd Bengal Native Infantry, February 1877; served in the Second Afghan War 1878-79; Adjutant, 2nd Bengal Native Infantry, 1881; Captain, August 1885; served in Burma, 1885-87 (Mentioned in Despatches and thanked by the Governor-General); Appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Military Police in Burma, 1890; Inspector-General, 1892; Commanded the operations against the Kachins, 1892-93 (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, August 1894, and thanked by the Governor-General); Brevet Colonel, August 1898; Colonel, August 1900; Appointed a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, 1.1.1901; Retired December 1910. Throughout his life Colonel Peile was a keen lawn-tennis player, and wrote a handbook on the game. He died at Territet, Switzerland, March 1932. Provenance: Buckland Dix & Wood 5.12.1995

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