Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant-Colonel T. de B. Carey, Indian Army, late Royal Fusiliers

Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (Lieutt. T. de B. Carey 1st Bn. Ryl: Fusrs:); 1914-15 Star (Capt. T. de B. Carey, 119/Infy.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Maj. T. de B. Carey.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24 (Lt. Col. T. De. B. Carry, 2/119/Infy.) note spelling of surname; Serbia, Order of the White Eagle, 4th class breast badge with swords, these sometime detached and now sewn to badge, original court mounting, good very fine (6) £1200-1500

Thomas De Beauvoir Carey was born on 10 October 1881.

Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, he was first commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, 1898; 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Fusiliers 1900; Lieutenant 1901; Captain 1908. He transferred to the Indian Army, to 119th Infantry (2/9th Jat Regiment) in October 1913 and was promoted to Major in September 1915; Lieut.-Colonel, December 1923; on various commands and raising of new units during and after the Great War; retired 1928.

He served in Tibet 1903-4 with the 1st Royal Fusiliers, including action at Naini, capture of Gyantse Jong, march to Lhassa, May 3rd to July 6th, 1904 (Medal with clasp). Mesopotamia 1915-16; Battle of Shaiba, mentioned in despatches; 2nd Battle of Kurna; invalided for enteric fever 1915; rejoined in Mesopotamia, attempted relief of General Townshend's force at Kut-el-Amara, April 1916; severely wounded in third unsuccessful attack of 7th April; invalided to India. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Carey died in 1945. Sold with an original group photograph and a copied group photograph, both of officers of the Royal Fusiliers, mostly identified.

For his group of miniature medals see Lot 532.