Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Henderson, Indian Cavalry

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, complete with brooch bar, obverse depressed, slight enamel damage; India General Service 1895-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (2nd Lieutt.1st Bn. East Kent Regt.) official correction to surname; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Tansvaal, South Africa 1902 (Lieut., 17/Bengal Lcrs.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Captn., 17th Cavy.); British War and Victory Medals, small and incorrect M.I.D. emblem on ribbon (Bt. Lt. Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Lt-Col., 28 Cavy.) official correction to rank, mounted as worn; together with a mounted set of miniature dress medals as above (D.S.O. in gold and enamel)

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, bronze issue (Bearer Rasule Bakhsh) very fine and better (15) £2600-3000

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918. ‘Henderson, Robert Wynne, Major, Indian Cavalry’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 16 January 1918 (Allenby, Egypt); 14 June 1918 (Allenby, Egypt).

Robert Wynne Henderson served in the operations leading to the relief of Chitral 1895; operations on the Samana and in the Kurram Valley, August-September 1897; operations at Tirah 1897-98. In the Boer War he served in operations in the Transvaal during April-May 1902.

Sold with clasp ‘Waziristan 1921-24’; 17th Bengal Lancers badge, and copied group photographs, including Henderson, at Rawalpindi 1901/02. The bronze Tibet Medal is associated with the group and may well be a servant to Lieutenant-Colonel Henderson.