Lot 985

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GROUP OF ELEVEN: Companion of the Order of the Bath; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George; Indian General Service Medal 1895 - three bars; Relief of Chitral; Punjab Frontier 1892-98; Tirah 1897-98; Africa General Service Medal - one bar - Somaliland 1902-04; 1914 Star (Aug-Sep); British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal (M.I.D.); Coronation Medal 1902; Jubilee Medal 1935; Coronation Medal 1937; Order of St Anne with swords - Russia. Maj. Gen. S.R. Davidson Indian Army; IGS engraved; AGS and Trio impressed. Jubilee Medal engraved, others unnamed. Mounted court fashion for wear, neck badges in cases of issue. Very fine.

Together with portrait of recipient, newspaper obituary, Boy Scouts Association Silver Wolf Award and ribbon bars. DAVIDSON, Major-General Sisley Richard, C.B. 1921; C.M.G. 1917; b. 26 Aug. 1869; s. of late Maj.-Gen.A.G. Davidson, Indian Army; m. Dorothy Harvey (d.1946), d. of late Sir James Westland, K.C.S.I.; no c. Educ: Nelson College, New Zealand. 2nd Lieutenant P.A. Som. L.I. 1890; joined Indian Army, 1892; Coy. Commander 47th Sikhs, 1901; Commandant, 1916; Brigade Commander, 1916; served Relief of Chitral, 1895 (medal and clasp; Mohmand Expedition, 1897 (clasp); Tirah Expedition, 1897-98 (clasp); Expeditions under Sir W. Manning and Sir C. Egerton in Somaliland, 1903-4 (despatches, medal and clasp); European War in France, 1914-15 (despatches, wounded, Brevet Lt.-Colonel, 1914 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal); Mesopotamia, 1916-18 (despatches twice, Brevet of Colonel, Order of St Anne 2nd class, C.M.G.); Palestine, 1918 (despatches); in command of 7th Indian Infantry Brigade till Nov. 1919; in command of Jhansi Brigade, India, 12 Dec. 1919; Delhi Brigade Area, 1921-22; Substantive Col. 12 Nov. 1919; Maj.-Gen. 1920; retd. 1922. London Comr. Boy Scouts Assoc., 1922-24; J.P. Middlesex, 1922-24; County Director B.R.C.S. (1) Somerset (2) Sutherland; Dep. Lieut. Sutherland (resigned); organised Home Guard, Sutherland and Caithness. Address: c/o Lloyds Bank, 6 Pall Mall, S.W.1. (Died 4 March 1952).