Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Brevet Colonel F. V. Whittall, Cheshire Regiment and East Yorkshire Regiment, late Indian Army.

China 1900, no clasp (Major, 1st Infy. Hybd. Contgt.) ‘1st’ re-engraved; 1914-15 Star (Bt. Col., Ches. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Bt. Col.) minor contact marks, good very fine (4) £400-500

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 September 1901 (China).

Francis Vaughan Whittal was born on 23 March 1861. He was first commissioned into the Leinster Regiment in January 1881 before being appointed to the Indian Army in August 1883. He served in the Burmese Expedition, 1887-88, for which he was awarded the India General Service Medal with two clasps, and a Special Service Officer serving in the China War of 1900 for which he was mentioned in despatches. During 1903-04 he was employed in Aden in operations in the interior. Whittal attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in June 1904. Having retired from the Indian Army and being granted the brevet rank of Colonel, he served in the Great War, firstly with the Cheshire Regiment and latterly in command of the 2nd (Home Service) Garrison Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment.