Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Maxwell, Indian Army

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Samana 1891, Chin Hills 1892-93 (Ltt. 19th Bl. Lcrs.) clasps soldered together; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieutt., 16th Bl. Cavy.); China 1900, no clasp (Captn., 16th Bl. Lcrs.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., Remount Serv.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, mounted court style as worn; France, Croix de Guerre 1914-1915, bronze palm on ribbon; U.S.A., Military Order of the Dragon, bronze and gilt, reverse inscribed (Capt. Hamilton G. Maxwell, 16th Cavalry No. 167) on substitute ribbon, lacking ‘pagoda’ top bar, these two mounted court style as worn, light contact marks, very fine and better (9) £2500-3000

Ex D.N.W. 2 December 2009.

Hamilton George Maxwell was born on 7 July 1863, the son of Colonel Hamilton Maxwell, late Bengal Staff Corps. After serving briefly in the ranks, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Connaught Rangers on 7 May 1887. In January 1888 he was promoted to a Lieutenant and appointed to the Indian Army Staff Corps. Ranked as a Squadron Officer with the 16th Bengal Lancers in April 1892, he served on the N.W. Frontier of India, serving in the 1st and 2nd Miranzai Expeditions and was Orderly Officer to Brigadier-General Sir W. S. A. Lockhart, K.C.B. in the 1st Miranzai Expedition. He then served in Burma 1892-93 before returning to the N.W. Frontier, 1897-98. Maxwell was promoted to Captain in May 1898 and saw service in the Boxer Rebellion. Further advancement followed, being promoted Substantive Major of the 16th Cavalry in May 1905 and Squadron Commander and Second in Command of the 16th Cavalry in November 1911. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in May 1913 and was employed by the Remount Service in the Great War. Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell retired from the service on 10 January 1920. With copied ‘Queen’s Indian Cadetship’ papers and other copied research. Croix de Guerre not confirmed.