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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 9

A 'Burra Sahib's' C.I.E. Group of Five to Captain A.R. Leishman, Assam-Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles
a) The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Companion’s (C.I.E.) neck Badge, gold and enamel
b) British War Medal (Capt. A.R. Leishman)
c) Delhi Durbar 1911, silver
d) Indian Volunteer Forces Officer’s Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, the reverse engraved ‘Capt. A.R. Leishman, The A.B. Rly. Bn. (A.F.I.)’, with integral top riband bar
e) Volunteer Force Long Service & G.C., G.V.R. (Lieutt. A.R. Leishman, Assam Bl. Ry. Vol. Rfls.), good very fine, all mounted court style for display purposes, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient (5)

C.I.E. London Gazette 3.6.1931 Alan Ross Leishman, Esq., V.D., Manager, James Finlay and Company, Chittagong, Bengal.

Captain Alan Ross Leishman, C.I.E., born 1878, and educated at Aldenham School; worked in India with James Finlay & Co., Chittagong, and subsequently served as President of the local Chamber of Commerce, and Chairman of the Port Commissioners (1929-34); Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Assam-Bengal Railway Volunteer Rifles, October 1908; promoted Lieutenant, September 1909; awarded the Indian Volunteer L.S .& G.C. Medal, June 1915; promoted Captain, July 1916, and served during the Great War with the Indian Defence Force (entitled to British War Medal only); awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officer’s Decoration, September 1923. Created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire for his services as Manager of James Finlay & Co., June 1931, he retired to England, where he died at Bromley, Kent in December 1937, after having been knocked down and fatally injured by a motor-cyclist - the latter being driven by an R.A.F. Sergeant based at R.A.F. Biggin Hill.

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