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Auction: 20003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 520

A mounted group of eleven miniature dress medals worn by Sir Gilbert Grace, Inspector-General Indian Police

Order of the Indian Empire, gilt base metal and enamel, complete with top bar; Order of the British Empire, 2nd type, Officer’s (O.B.E.) Civil Division, on 1st type ribbon; British War Medal 1914-20; India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, North West Frontier 1930-31, M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39; 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Coronation 1953; Pakistan, Independence Medal, mounted as worn, very fine and better (11)

Oliver Gilbert Grace was born in 1896 and was educated at Berkhamsted School. He served in the Great War and as a Captain and Adjutant in the Green Howards, Staff Captain and Brigade Major, 189th Infantry Brigade. He entered the Indian Police in 1920 and was Commandant of the N.W. Frontier Constabulary, 1937-47 and Inspector-General of N.W. Frontier Police Pakistan, 1947-51. Awarded the O.B.E. in 1934; C.I.E. in 1945 and Knighted in 1953. Latterly living in South Africa, he died on 23 January 1968; sold together with a fine portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform wearing his full-sze medals and copied research.

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£230