Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of ten miniature dress medals worn by Colonel A. S. Lancaster, 10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 2nd type badge, gilt and enamel, complete with brooch bar; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 2nd type badge, silver-gilt; British War and Victory Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, N.W. Persia; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937; United States of America, Medal of Freedom, with silver palm on riband, mounted as worn, and housed in the Garrard, London, case of issue for the recipient’s full-sized C.I.E., good very fine (10) £200-£240

C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1947: Lieutenant-Colonel (Local Colonel) Alexander Stalker Lancaster, O.B.E., Indian Army, Military Attaché, British Legation, Kabul.

O.B.E. London Gazette 2 June 1943: Lieutenant-Colonel (Local Colonel) Alexander Stalker Lancaster, 10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army.

United States of America Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm London Gazette 27 May 1949:
‘In recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies.’

Sold with the recipient’s various Masonic regalia, insignia, and documents relating to his membership of both the McMahon Lodge no. 3262, and the Ullswater Lodge no. 3297., including named silver-gilt and enamel medals for both his role as Secretary and Worshipful Master of the McMahon Lodge, all contained in a leather suitcase embossed ‘A. S. L.’, with outer canvas foul-weather cover.