Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Ltt. C. L. Bushell, E.C. Voltr. Rfls.) engraved naming, good very fine £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Charles Lestourgeon Bushell was born in Harrow on 13 May 1874, the son of The Rev.d. William Done Bushell, V.D., M.A. He was educated at Harrow, 1888-91, when he was at Rendalls House, of which his father was Housemaster. Bushell then attended the City and Guilds College, London, 1891-94, where he took an engineering course. He then took employment as an Assistant with Shelford & Son, and in 1897 was engaged with this firm with the West African Government Railways in Sierra Leone. He was latterly Chief assistant on the Government Railway Survey in Sierra Leone. Bushell moved to India in 1903 and joined the service of the Public Works Department as an Assistant Engineer in the Office of the Chief Engineer for Irrigation in Madras. At the time of his retirement in 1926 he had gained the rank of Executive Engineer of the Vizagapatam Division.

Bushell was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the 9th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers on 5 March 1892. He was promoted to Lieutenant in July 1893 and Captain in February 1898. He resigned his commission on 15 November 1899. He was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th (West) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers on 14 March 1900. Having been promoted to Lieutenant in April 1901, he resigned his commission on 18 November 1902. When in India he again served in the Volunteers, being appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the East Coast Volunteer Rifles on 1 April 1908. He was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1910 and Captain in February 1915. He was posted to the Supernumerary List in September 1915. As a Lieutenant in the East Coast Volunteer Rifles, Bushell was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, this published in I.A.O. 485 of September 1914.

On his retirement he returned to England and lived at Scotch Corner, Wildernesse Avenue, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent, until his death in 1946. During the Second World War he was an A.R.P. Warden, 1939-44. He was also Honorary Treasurer of the Sevenoaks and District Boy Scouts’ Association. With copied research.