India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. J. C. Maude, 57/Rfls. F.F.) mounted as worn, edge bruising, very fine £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force).

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Dix Noonan Webb, July 2019.

Jack Carstairs Maude was born in August 1899, and was the son of H. W. Maude of Clonakilty, County Cork. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army in August 1918, and posted to the 57th (Wilde’s Rifles) Frontier Force in February the following year. Maude advanced to Lieutenant in August 1918, and served with the Regiment in Afghanistan in 1919. The Regimental History gives the following for the period:

‘Desultory fighting continued to take place round the borders of the Kurram valley, a successful attack being carried out on Badama Post by the Kurram Militia. Up till now the battalion had taken no active part in the operations, but were “standing to” in case of emergency.

On the 2nd of June, a small column, which included the battalion Stokes Mortar section under Lieutenant Maude, attacked the Afghan post of Kharlachi at dawn, capturing the post and burning some villages.’

Maude was attached as Quartermaster with the 2/55th (Coke’s Rifles) from October 1920. He returned to what was now designated the 4th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles (Wilde’s) in 1922, advanced to Captain and was transferred to the 2/13th FFR in August 1923.

Maude subsequently served with the 10/13th FFR before resigning his commission in September 1930. He re-engaged for service during the Second War as a Lieutenant with the 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment in December 1939. Maude died at the Queen Inn, Burghclere, Hampshire, in March 1954.