Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Captn. D. I. Gardiner, 2/125/Rfls.) very fine £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Rifle Brigade and Affiliated Regiments from the collection formed by Michael Haines.

View
Collection

Douglas Ivan Gardiner was born at Mussoorie, India, on 7 February 1896, son of Edward A. Gardiner, formerly Chief of Police in Singapore. He was educated at Brighton College, where he was a Sergeant in the O.T.C.. In Malaya he served as a Sergeant in the Johore Volunteer Rifles and became an assistant manager of a rubber plantation. In May 1917 he attested for the Rifle Brigade, attached to the Officer Cadet Battalion, Cambridge, and after three months was commissioned into the Indain Army Reserve of Officers. He was promoted to Lieutenant in August 1918 and joined the 2/125th Napier’s Rifles, becoming Capatin & Adjutant in the following year. He retired in 1920, and later served in the ranks of the A.F.I., being commissioned into the Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles as 2nd Lieutenant in May 1932, and Lieutenant in May 1935. He retired in 1939 and is also entitled to the British War and Victory Medals. His original application for a commission was strongly supported by the G.O.C. Straits Settlements who knew him personally and who noted that Gardiner had lost a brother during the war, an officer in the Royal Fusiliers. Sold with copied service records.