Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War ‘India service’ O.B.E. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. G. Chamier, Supply and Transport Corps, who was a member of the ‘Military Order of the Dragon’

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Capt., S. & T. Corps); 1914-15 Star (Maj., S. & T. Corps); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj.); U.S.A., Military Order of the Dragon (William St. George Chamier No 1350), lacking Pagoda top suspension and with modern ribbon, good very fine and better (6) £2000-2400

O.B.E. London Gazette 12 September 1919. ‘... for services in India in connection with the war’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 11 June 1920. ‘... for valuable services rendered in India in connection with the war’.

William St. George Chamier was born on 3 August 1870. He received his first commission in the Leinster Regiment on 9 September 1891 and entered into the Indian Army on 11 October 1894. He served in the Supply and Transport Corps in the China War of 1900 and in the Great War and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on 9 September 1917. During 1917-18 he was on the Staff of the Northern (India) Command as Inspector of Supply and Transport Services. With copied research.