Lot 4461

Description

Trio to Superintendent of Punjab Police: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Officer (OBE) type 1; King's Police Medal (GVR) type 1; India General Service Medal 1854, - clasp - Burma 1887-89. The first medal unnamed, Duncan Donald Supt., Punjab Police on second medal, (erased Inspector ?) Mr. D.Donald (erased ?) Mily Police on last medal. The named medals engraved, the erased areas scratched to try and remove. Apart from the naming fault, very fine - extremely fine.

OBE: Supplement to LG, 3/6/1919, p7052, Duncan Donald, Superintendent, Punjab Police.

KPM: Edinburgh Gazette, 16/2/1917, p366, Duncan Donald, Superintendent, Punjab Police. For twenty-eight years' good service, particularly against dacoits in Burma and in important cases.

Duncan Donald born 30Jun1864, son of A.J.S.Donald; educated at Bishop Cotton School, Simia; served with India Police attaining rank of Superintendent, Punjab Police then as Superintendent of Central Jail, Lahore; served in the Burma War; mentioned and subsequently thanked by H.E.The Commander-in-Chief for war work during 1915-17 (see Handbook of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1921 edited by A.Winton Thorpe).

Duncan Donald had five brothers all of who served the government in India. They were, Sir John Stuart Donald KCSI who was a career public servant firstly with the Punjab Provincial Civil Service then progressing to the Imperial Civil Service where he served as British Commissioner of the Anglo-Afghan Boundary Commission, then the Resident in Waziristan and later Chief Commissioner of the North West Frontier Province of British India. Another was Douglas Donald CSI, CIE, CBE, who became Deputy Inspector General of the Punjab Police. A third brother, Ranald Donald, served in the Punjab Judiciary. The fourth brother, William Donald served in the Public Works Department and the fifth, Charles Hilliard Donald, was Warden of the Punjab Game and Fisheries Department and the author of several books on Indian wildlife.

With research.