Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir W. F. Campbell, K.C.I.E., Indian Political Department, late 52nd Sikhs (Frontier Force)

1914-15 Star (Lt., 52/Sikhs F.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (Lt. Col., Pol. Dept.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, extremely fine (7) £300-350

Walter Fendall Campbell was born on 20 May 1894, son of Brigadier-General G. P. Campbell, C.I.E., C.B.E., Royal Engineers. He was educated at Mount St Mary’s College, Derbyshire, and entered the Indian Army in 1914. He served with the 52nd Sikhs in the operations in the Tochi Valley in 1914-15, and was seconded to the Civil Administration in Iraq during the operations of 1920-21 (despatches London Gazette 9 September 1921). He joined the Indian Political Department in 1921 and held various posts in Districts and Agencies of Baluchistan and North West Frontier Province, 1921-33. He was appointed Secretary to the Agent to the Governor-General for states of Western India, 1933-35; became Prime Minister of Alwar, 1935-36; Political Agent to Bundelkhand, 1937-39; Resident in Waziristan, 1939-40, and wounded during the operations on the North West Frontier (created C.I.E. 1941); Adviser to the Governor, N.W.F. Province, 1941-42; Resident for Central India, 1942-46; Resident for Mysore, 1946-47. He was Knighted, K.C.I.E., in 1946 and retired in 1947 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 15 May 1973.