Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel W. C. Hutcheson, Indian Army, who was three times Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War
1914-15 Star (Capt. W. C. Hutcheson 1/3/Brahmans.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Maj. W. C. Hutcheson.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, second and third clasps both loose on riband (Maj. W. C. Hutcheson, I.A.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, the reverse dated 1914-1916, with bronze palm emblem on riband, nearly very fine and better

British War Medal 1914-20 (T-Nurse Mrs. M. M. Hutcheson.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. N. H. Hutcheson) minor edge bruising to VM, this very fine; the BWM extremely fine (6) £600-£800

Wellesley Cathcart Hutcheson was born on 18 April 1883 and, after holding various commissions in the Militia, transferred to the 2nd West India Regiment in 1901, and then to the 67th Punjabis, Indian Army, on 2 May 1902. He joined the 3rd Brahmans on 16 November 1906, and was promoted Captain on 4 December 1910. He served during the Great War with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 12 December 1915, and was promoted Major on 4 December 1916. Appointed an Embarkation Staff Officer as a Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, he was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 15 August 1917, 23 August 1918, and 12 January 1920) for his services during the Great War, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre (London Gazette 245 September 1917).

Hutcheson saw further service with the Kohat Kurram Force during the Third Afghan War, firstly with the 82nd Punjabis and the 2nd/41st Dogras, and then as a Company Commander with the Wazir Force. Promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 4 December 1927, he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 2nd/19th Hyderabad Regiment on 20 June 1929, and retired on 1 November 1933. He died in Kenya on 18 May 1938.

Maude Mary Hutcheson, née Cross, was born in 1878 and married Wellesley Cathcart Hutcheson on 28 January 1901 at St. Thomas’s Cathedral, Bombay. She served during the Great War with No. 33 British General Hospital in Mesopotamia from February to April 1918, and died in 1956.

Norman Heber Hutcheson, the younger brother of Wellesley Cathcart Hutcheson, was born on 4 November 1884 and after holding various commissions in the Militia received a Regular Army commission in the Royal Irish Rifles on 23 May 1906. He served prior to the Great War as Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Burma, and then with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 2 January 1915. He was killed in action on 12 March 1915 during he Battle of Neuve Chapelle, in what was the Battalion’s first major action of the War; he has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.

Sold with an empty Princess Mary 1914 Christmas Tin, and a USB stick of copied research.