Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieut. N. S. Swanston, M.S.C.) nearly extremely fine £140-160

Nowell Sherston Swanston was born on 28 December 1858, and commissioned as Ensign in the 21st Foot on 22 January 1879. Appointed to the Madras Establishment of the Indian Army in September 1880, he served as Executive Commissariat Officer during the operations in Burma 1885-89, around Hlinedet, Yemethin, and Nyingyan, and was subsequently serving with the 3rd Brigade (Medal with 2 clasps). During the operations on the North-East Frontier, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, he served as Base Commissariat Officer, Nyingyan, to the Northern and Southern columns (despatches, G.G.O. 449 of 1890). His service during the latter expedition did not qualify for the Chin-Lushai clasp as he remained at Base. He retired as a Brevet Colonel in June 1907.