Orders, Decorations and Medals

Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army
Riband bar, pin-backed (lacking pin), bearing the ribbons: Order of the Indian Empire; Distinguished Service Order; India General Service 1895-1902; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902; 1914 Star, with silver rosette; British War Medal 1914-20; Victory Medal 1914-19, with M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, good condition £20-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Ribbons from the Collection of the late Judge Henry Pownall.

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Riband bar attributed to Brigadier-General Charles Edward Every Francis Kirwan Macquoid. Born in 1869 and educated at Dover College. He entered the Army, as a 2nd Lieutenant with the King’s Regiment, in 1888. Later with the Indian Army, he was Commandant of the 4th Cavalry, 1916-19. He served in the military operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1895-96, at Tirah, the operations against the Khani Khel Chamkanis, Mohmand and Samana, for which he was awarded the I.G.S. 1895 with three clasps, was mentioned in despatches and was awarded the D.S.O. He then served in the Boer War, being awarded the Queen’s medal with one clasp. In the Great War, he served in France, Egypt and Mesopotamia, 1914-18, being mentioned in despatches and attaining the rank of Brigadier-General in 1918. He was G.O.C. Kuki Punitive Measures, 1918, for which he was awarded the C.I.E., and G.O.C. Brigade Afghan Frontier, 1919. Brigadier-General Macquoid died in 1945. With copied research.