Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. E. B. Coates, Indian Army Ordnance Corps, late 2nd Punjab Regiment and Tochi Scouts

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lt. J. M. E. B. Coates, 5-2 Punjab R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Capt. J. M. E. B. Coates, Tochi Scouts.); War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45, these both contemporarily engraved ‘Lt. Col. J. M. E. B. Coates. I.A.O.C.’, good very fine (4) £240-£280

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002 (IGS 1908-35 and IGS 1936-39 only)

John Martin Edward Buller Coates was born in 1904 and was commissioned into the East Surrey Regiment in 1925. Transferring to the Indian Army in 1926, he became a Lieutenant in the 2nd Punjab Regiment in 1928 and was promoted Captain in 1934. Between 1934-37 he was employed as a Wing Officer with the Tochi Scouts. He retired in 1938 but was reactivated the following year and appointed to the Indian Army Ordnance Corps in June 1940, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.