Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major G. W. Gilbertson, Supply and Transport Corps, late 3rd Dragoon Guards, who over the course of a 34 year career was Mentioned in Despatches whilst serving with the 7th Mule Corps as part of Colonel Younghusband’s Tibet Expedition 1903-04; and received further ‘Mentions’ for service in Mesopotamia and Iraq during the Great War; and post-Armistice with the Bushire Force in South Persia in 1919

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Waziristan 1901-2, second clasp loose on riband as issued (Sergr. G. Gilbertson Comst. Transpt. Deptt.); Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Condtr. G. W. Gilbertson. 7th. Mule Corps); British War Medal 1914-20 (Major G. W. Gilbertson.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia, with Great War M.I.D. oak leaves (Major G. W. Gilbertson.) officially re-impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sub Condtr. G. Gilbertson S. & T. Corps.) minor official correction to rank on last, about extremely fine (5) £600-800

George Walters Gilbertson was born at Thurso, Caithness, in 1860, and attested for the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Liverpool on 4 March 1885, having previously served in the Royal Marine Light Infantry. Transferring to the Commissariat Department on 1 July 1889, he was promoted Sergeant on 1 July 1890, and served during the Relief of Chitral in 1895. Promoted Sub-Conductor on 7 March 1901, he served with the 7th Mule Corps during Colonel Younghusband’s Expedition to Tibet, December 1903 to September 1904, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 13 December 1904). Awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 345 of 16 May 1904, he was promoted Conductor on 27 September 1904, and was subsequently advanced to Deputy Commissary on 24 November 1913, with the rank of Honorary Captain. He served during the Great War in India and the Middle East (additionally entitled to a 1914-15 Star and a Victory Medal), and was Mentioned in Sir Percy Lake’s Despatch for Mesopotamia and Iraq (London Gazette 19 October 1916). Promoted to his ultimate rank of Major and Commissary on 4 April 1918, he saw further service following the Armistice with the Bushire Force in South Persia, and was again Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 3 February 1920). He died in at South Norwood, Surrey, on 23 September 1941.