Orders, Decorations and Medals

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Major J. W. G. Ouseley, U.P. Horse 2d Regt.) engraved naming, minor correction to surname, good very fine £80-100

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

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Joseph William Glynn Ouseley was employed in the Tea Business in Assam and was an Honorary Magistrate at Dehra Dun. During the Boer War he served as a Lieutenant in Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry and was awarded the Queen’s Medal with clasps for Orange Free State, Transvaal, Relief of Ladysmith and Laing’s Nek. Serving as a Sergeant in the Dehra Dun Mounted Rifles, he formed part of the 1902 Indian Volunteer Coronation Contingent and was awarded the Coronation Medal in bronze. He was granted a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the unit on 1 May 1903. Ouseley was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1906 and Captain in March 1908. The Dehra Dun Mounted Rifles and the Mounted Troop of the Naini Tel Volunteer Rifles were amalgamated in 1909 to form the United Provinces 2nd (Northern) Regiment. Promoted to Major in June 1911, he was awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal, this published in I.A.O. 274 of May 1913. With the onset of war, he was appointed a Captain in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers with effect on 18 February 1915, and in May 1915 he was attached to the 12th Cavalry, and was employed with the Imperial Service Troops. He held a number of appointments, and was at times Officiating Inspecting and Assistant Inspecting Officer of the Central India Horse and latterly Officiating Inspecting Officer of Kathiwar Cavalry at Rajkot. When the Indian Defence Force was formed, the United Provinces 2nd (Northern) Regiment became the 8th (Northern) United Provinces Horse. Ouseley was re-appointed to that unit as Major in April 1917. Major Ouseley was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, this being published in the Gazette of India of 24 August 1918. For his wartime services in India he was awarded the O.B.E. (Military Division), this published in the London Gazette of 12 September 1919. With copied research.