Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel G. B. S. Chawla, 18th Field Ambulance

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these privately engraved (M.Z.1099 Lt-Colonel G. B. S. Chawla, 18th Fd. Amb.)

Three: H. L. Upadhe, Calcutta Port, Defence of India Corps

1939-45 Star; Burma Star, these two officially impressed (165185 H. L. Upadhe, Cal. Port, D. of I. Corps (Docks)); War Medal 1939-45, unnamed, mounted as worn

Pair: Rifleman Kishnabahadur Thapa, 8th Gurkha Rifles

Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, both officially impressed (86583 Rfn. Kishnabahadur Thapa, 8 G.R.) very fine and better (8) £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the late Eric Smith.

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Gurbaksh Singh Chawla was born on 5 May 1893. He served in the ranks of the Indian Army, September 1918-January 1919 and April-August 1919. He received his medical training at St. Andrews, gaining the M.B., Ch.B. in 1923. Appointed a Temporary Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, August 1924; Lieutenant, May 1925; Captain, August 1927; Major, February 1934 and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1944. With copied research.