Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89, second clasp loose on riband, as issued (Mr. F. H. Wells, Assist. Suptd. Burma Police) edge bruise, contact marks, otherwise very fine £220-£260

Francis Henry Wells was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire on 5 May 1863. The son of Dr. Warwick Wells, a retired surgeon with the Bengal Army, he was appointed Inspector of Police, 4th grade, in the North-Western Provinces, on 1 April 1886. Promoted Assistant District Superintendent of Police, 2nd class, at Pagan on 6 January 1887, he was posted to Pin, Taugdwingyi 13 days later. On 8 January 1888, he is noted as being ‘on medical certificate for one year and three months’. He subsequently returned to the UK and appears on the 1891 census as a Captain in the Cardigan Artillery Militia. He died, aged 73, in Cheltenham on 4 May 1937.

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