Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War D.S.O. group of eight to Lieutenant-Colonel C.R.L. Fitzgerald, 126 Baluch Light Infantry, late West Riding Regiment

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER, G.V.R.; QUEEN'S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, S.A. 1901, S.A. 1902 (Lieut., W. Riding Rgt.) backstraps of clasps removed for mounting 1914-15 STAR (Capt., 126 Baluch L.I.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS, M.I.D. (Maj) no rank shown on war medal; INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Major, 126 Baluch In.) backstraps of clasps removed for mounting, DEFENCE AND WAR MEDALS, the group on a contemporary court style mounting, generally very fine (8)

D.S.O., London Gazette, 3 June, 1916.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert Lewis Fitzgerald joined the 3rd Bn. West Riding Regiment in South Africa, 1901; entered the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1903; transferred to the Indian Army, 1905; served during the Great War in the Dardanelles including the Suvla operations, Egypt, Indian Frontier, South Persia 1917-18, North East Persia 1919-20.