Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A C.I.E., gold Kaisar-i-Hind group of four awarded to C. Tindall Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bengal

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, with neck riband, in Garrard, London, case of issue; Kaisar-i-Hind, G.V.R., 2nd ‘solid’ type, gold, with integral top riband bar, lacking pin, in case of issue; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. C. Tindall, Cal. Sco. A.F.I.) good very fine and better (4) £1,800-£2,200

C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Christian Tindall was born in 1878 and was educated at Malvern College and Corpus Christi, Oxford. He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1901, and was appointed Under-Secretary to the Government Revenue Department in East Bengal and Assam in 1906; a District and Sessions Judge in 1915; and latterly served as Secretary to the Government of Bengal. He retired in 1926, and died in 1951.

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