Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, clasp carriage altered to accommodate later clasp (Mr. J. T. Rivett-Carnac, Distt. Supdt. of Police) remnants of adhesive to obverse, edge bruise, otherwise good very fine £300-£400

Spink, April 2000.

John Thurlow Rivett-Carnac was born in Milford, Hampshire, on 26 April 1856, the son of Charles Forbes Rivett-Carnac, and the grandson of Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet, sometime Governor of Bombay, and was educated at Winchester and Rugby. Joining the Bengal Police in November 1874, he enjoyed a long and successful career that led him to the pinnacle of his profession by January 1909, with his appointment as a Deputy Inspector-General at Cachar. During that period he was twice detached for 'special duty', namely in the Burma operations of 1885-87, when he was the Personal Assistant to the Inspector-General of Police in Upper Burma, and again in January 1890, when ordered to join the Lushai Expeditionary Force from his current appointment as a Commandant, Military Police in the Garo Hills. He retired just prior to the Great War and died in 1948.