Orders, Decorations and Medals

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir H. B. St. John, K.C.I.E., C.B.E., Indian Political Service, late Rattray's Sikhs, Indian Army. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, C.B.E., Military, 1st type neck badge, in Garrard case of issue; INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1895-1902,3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897- 98, Malakand 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut, 45th Sikhs); BRITISH WAR MEDAL (Lt. Col.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Major, C.I.E., C.B.E., Ind. Pol. Dept.); DELHI DURBAR 1903, silver; DELHI DURBAR 1911, silver; JUBILEE 1935; CORONATION 1937, the group mounted court style, good very fine (8)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir (Henry) Beauchamp St. John (1874-1954), entered the Army in 1893, attached to the 32nd DCLI. He transferred to the Indian Staff Corps, in 1894, and served with 45th Rattray's Sikhs on N.W. Frontier, 1897-98, at the Defence of Malakand, relief of Chakdara, Malakand, action of Landakai, operations in Bajaur and in the Mamund country; Tirah, 1897-98; operations with the Bara Valley, 7 to 14 December, 1897 (medal with 3 clasps); Afghan War 1919 (C.B.E., despatches, medal with clasp). Amongst many other political appointments, he was Agent to the Governor General, Punjab States, 1925-27; Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan, 1927-30; Prime Minister of Jaipur State, Rajputana, 1933- 39. He was made C.I.E. in 1913 and was advanced to K.C.I.E. in 1930.