Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain G. St. J. Richardson, 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs, Indian Army, who died of wounds on the first day of the Battle of Kut al Amara on 7 December 1915

1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. G. St. J. Richardson); Memorial Plaque (Garnet St. John Richardson); Memorial Scroll ‘Lieut. Garnet St. John Richardson, 7th Rajputs’, with a portrait newspaper cutting photograph of the recipient and a small silver life-saving medal, all mounted in a glazed display frame, the scroll ‘corrected’ to read ‘Captain Garnet St.-John Richardson, D.C.O. 7th Rajputs. 1915’, otherwise nearly extremely fine (4) £280-£320

Garnet St. John Richardson, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel W. St. J. Richardson, was commissioned second lieutenant, Unattached List for Indian Army, from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on 8 September 1909 and was posted to the 7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs on 27 December 1910. He was promoted lieutenant on 8 December 1911, and captain on 1 September 1915 (although his promotion to captain was not formally gazetted until after his death). He died of wounds on 7 December 1915, on the first day of the battle of Kut al Amara, and is buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.

Note: Owing to the fact that the medals are held in a glazed display frame the reverse of the 1914-15 Star has not been seen. Consequently this lot is sold as viewed and not subject to return.