Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Sir Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam, Indian Civil Service

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E. Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, very fine £80-£100

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 1999.

Knight Bachelor London Gazette 1 January 1948: Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Health.

C.S.I. London Gazette 13 June 1946: Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Health.

C.I.E. London Gazette 11 May 1937: Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Reforms Officer to the Government of the Central Provinces.

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Sir Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam was born on 17 January 1898, and was educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery (Special Reserve) during the Great War on the Western Front, being awarded the Military Cross, before joining the Indian Civil Service in 1921. He held various appointments, his final one being Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Health, 1945-47, before retiring on the transfer of power in 1947. He died on 2 April 1972.