Orders, Decorations and Medals

A pair of uniform epaulettes, formerly the property of Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Goddard, Indian Army, standard khaki issues with crown and single pip, and metalled ‘Mahratta L.I.’ titles, a little moth damage (2) £20-30

Frederick Charles Goddard, who was born in August 1898, married Violet, daughter of the late Captain John William Clayton, 13th Light Dragoons (see Lot 869), and his second wife, Catherine Mary, in January 1932, thereby becoming Violet’s third husband.

Appointed to a commission in the Indian Army in June 1916, he served in Iraq from April 1917 to November 1918 (British War & Victory Medals), again in 1920 (Medal & clasp), and in the Waziristan operations of 1923 (Medal & clasp). Advanced to Major in the 5th Mahratta Light Infantry in August 1938, Goddard was detached for duty in the Indian State Forces sometime prior to the outbreak of hostilities, and was a Military Adviser in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel to the Punjab State Forces from March 1942 to April 1946.

Sold with a hand-coloured portrait photograph, in uniform, and official wartime publication Japanese Military Forces, March 1942, as compiled by the Military Intelligence Directorate at G.H.Q., India, 143pp., the cover with printed warning, ‘This document must not fall into enemy hands’, and the contents with occasional annotation - as issued to Goddard on his taking up appointment as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Punjab State Forces.