Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War C.B. group of five awarded to Colonel Sir Bruce G. Seton, Bt., Indian Medical Service, who was severely wounded at Kaniguram during the Waziristan campaign of 1894-95, and was later Mentioned in Despatches during the Great War

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-5 (S: Capt. B. G. Seton., I.M.S.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (S. Capt. B. G. Seton, I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. Sir B. G. Seton); together with a silver eight-pointed star and Royal Masonic Institute for Girls Steward’s Badge for 1927, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, mounted for display, very fine and better (7) £1,200-£1,600

Tony Sabell Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2012.

C.B. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 27 June 1917.

Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, Bt., was born on 13 October 1868, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton, Royal Engineers. He was educated at Bart’s and gained the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. London in 1891. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant in January 1892; being promoted to Surgeon Captain in January 1895, Major in January 1904 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1912. He was granted the brevet rank of Colonel on 30 June 1913.

Seton served on the N.W. Frontier of India in the Waziristan campaign of 1894-95, being severely wounded at Kaniguram; then in the Tochi campaign of 1897-98. Prior to the Great War he held the post of Secretary to the Director-General of the I.M.S. During the Great War he was in command of the Kitchener Indian Hospital at Brighton, 1914-16. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

On 6 March 1916 he succeeded his cousin, Sir Bruce Maxwell Seton, as 9th Baronet of Abercorn. In 1923 he advanced a claim to the Barony of Gordon, which, after six years, was rejected by the House of Lords.

Sir Bruce Seton was the author or co-author of Cavalry Elementary Veterinary Manual, 1895; The Indian Medical Service, 1911; The Pipes of War, 1920; The Prisoners of Forty-five, 1928, and was editor of The Orderly Book of Lord Ogilvy’s Regiment in the Army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1924. He died at Edinburgh on 3 July 1932.

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