Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Indian Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct group of eight awarded to Sergeant-Major of Police W. T. Ball, Bihar & Orissa Police and Chota Nagpur Regiment, late Middlesex Regiment

Indian Police Medal, G.VI.R., for Distinguished Conduct (W. T. Ball, Sergeant-Major of Police, Patna); British War Medal 1914-20 (1489 Cpl. W. T. Ball. Midd’x. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (1489 Pte. W. T. Ball. Midd’x. R.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these last two unnamed; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (290188 Cpl. W. T. Ball. 10-Middx. R.); Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., India, with Second Award Clasp (Cpl. W. T. Ball, Chota Nagpur R., A.F.I.); India Police Independence Medal 1950, unnamed as issued, mounted for display, minor edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise good very fine and rare (8) £1,000-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Paul Bentley Collection.

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John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.

I.P.M. Gazette of India 11 July 1940. ‘Sergeant-Major of Police, Patna’.

Statement of service for which decoration has been conferred:
‘Sergeant-Major Ball served in the Great War and rose from Private to acting Company Sergeant-Major in the 1/10th Middlesex Regiment. He joined the Bihar and Orissa Police as Sergeant in 1924. He was promoted to officiate as Sergeant-Major in 1925 and confirmed in that rank in 1928.
All officers under whom he has served found him energetic, conscientious, thoroughly reliable, a good disciplinarian and extremely tactful with his men. There is not a single adverse entry in his service record and he was specially mentioned in the Annual Administration Report successively from 1926 to 1930.
In 1932 he was specially selected to fill the post of Deputy Superintendent of the Camp Jail, Patna, and fully justified the selection.
In 1933 he was selected to hold charge of His Excellency‘s Special Guard and served for 5 years to the entire satisfaction of the Military and Private Secretaries to His Excellency.’

Awarded the Territorial Efficiency Medal in Army Order 423 of November 1923.

Awarded the Efficiency Medal (India) and Clasp in Indian Army Order 128 of March 1934.

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