Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Patrick Robert Cadell, Bombay Volunteer Rifles

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt-Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (P. R. Cadell, I.C.S., Dec. 1911); Jubilee 1935, unnamed; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved, ‘Lt. Col. P. R. Cadell, C.I.E., Bom. Vol. Rfls.’, with top slip bar, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (4) £260-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Patrick Robert Cadell had a distinguished career both in the Indian Civil Service and as a historian. He was born in Alwar in India on 6 May 1871, the second son of Colonel Thomas Cadell, V.C., C.B. Cadell, was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Haileybury and at Balliol College, Oxford. A member of the Oxford University Rugby Football XV, 1890-91, he was selected to play for the South of England. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1891, arriving in India in December 1891 and going to the Bombay Presidency. He held many important positions, being appointed Assistant Magistrate; Chairman of the Plague Commission in 1898; Under-Secretary to the Government of Bombay Revenue Department, 1900-01; Private Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, 1907; Collector of Customs, Calcutta, 1908; Municipal Commissioner of the City of Bombay, 1910-13; Acting Commissioner at Sind, 1913; Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, 1916; in charge of the War Department, 1918; Chairman of the Bombay Port Trust, 1922; Member of the Executive Council, Government of Bombay, 1924; Commissioner at Sind, 1925; retiring from the Indian Civil Service in 1926. He was President of the Council, Junagadh State, 1932-35; and similarly for Sangli State, 1937 and Rajkot State, 1938.

For his many services he was appointed a C.I.E. (London Gazette 3 June 1913) and C.S.I. (London Gazette 3 June 1919). He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1935 (London Gazette 1 January 1935) when he was described as the Prime Minister of Junagadh State, Western India States Agency.

Cadell was a keen and long serving Volunteer. He was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Sind Volunteer Rifles on 23 October 1896 and was advanced to Captain in July 1898 and Major in October 1903. He transferred to the Bombay Volunteer Rifles in 1905 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1912. As such he was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, published in the Gazette of India of 21 July 1917. During 1915-20 he was Officiating Commandant of the Bombay Volunteer Rifles. For his war services he was awarded the British War Medal. Cadell was Honorary A.D.C. to the Viceroy, 1919-24. During the Second World War he served in the Berkshire Home Guard, 1940-42.

He was author of History of the Bombay Army, 1938 and other works. Latterly living at Abingdon, he died on 22 November 1961. Sold with copied research.