Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Colonel J. B. Mackintosh, Royal Garrison Artillery, late No. 1 Kashmir Mountain Battery

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieutt., No. 1 Kashmir Mtn. By.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Lt. Col.) nearly extremely fine (4)

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1917.

John Burn Mackintosh was born in 1869, son of James Mackintosh, Lord of Lambakha Estate, Peebleshire. He was educated at Exeter School, Victoria College and the R.M.A., Woolwich, entering the Royal Artillery as a Gentleman Cadet in 1887. He embarked for India in September 1888, and served with the Kashmir Mountain Battery during the Tirah campaign 1897-98. During the Great War he commanded the 1st Indian Mountain Artillery Brigade in Mesopotamia from May 1916 until May 1918, when he took command of the 72nd Heavy Artillery Group in Egypt. He retired from the Army on 14 February 1921.