Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War C.I.E. group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Rennie, Royal Army Medical Corps, late Colonel Commanding United Provinces Horse

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, in Garrards, London C.I.E. 2nd type case; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lt. Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed, good very fine and better (3) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Samuel James Rennie was born at Ecclesall, Yorkshire on 2 April 1855. He was appointed a Surgeon in the Army Medical Service in July 1881, Surgeon-Major in July 1893, Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1901, and placed on Retired Pay in 1903. In 1908 he was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel of the United Provinces Horse; being the first Colonel of the newly constituted regiment. He commanded the Mounted Volunteer Contingent at the Delhi Durbar of 1911, also the King Emperor’s Mounted Volunteer Escort, and was A.D.C. to the Commander-in-Chief, India. Re-employed with the R.A.M.C. during the Great War, he served as Senior Medical Officer, Chakrata and Delhi, 1915-19. He was awarded the C.I.E. in 1919. He died in 1935. See lot 1164 for the recipient’s miniature medals.