Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Stewart, 7th and 13th Rajputs, Indian Army

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (Lieutt. J. A. Stewart, 7th Bl. Infy.); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn: J. A. Stewart, 7th Rajput.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Major J. Stewart, I.A. H.M.S. Perseus.); 1914-15 Star (Maj. J. A. Stewart. 13/Rajputs); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt-Col. J. A. Stewart); Delhi Durbar 1911 (Major J. A. Stewart, 7th D.C.O. Rajputs 12-12-1911.) mounted as worn, generally very fine and rare (7) £1,400-£1,800

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 June 1916.

John Alexander Stewart was born on 5 June 1868, and was first commissioned into the Manchester Regiment on 22 August 1888. He transferred to the Indian Army on 1 June 1893, and was appointed to the 7th Rajputs, with whom he served in the relief of Chitral 1895 (Medal with clasp), the relief of Pekin 1900 (Medal with clasp), and in the operations on the North West Frontier in the Mohmand country 1908 (Medal with clasp). He served aboard H.M.S. Perseus in command of a detachment of 7th Rajputs during the anti gun running operations in the Persian Gulf 1909-14, and was thus one of only 17 Army officers to receive this Naval medal. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th Rajputs on 22 August 1914, and commanded the regiment from 17 November 1916 to 5 June 1920, when he retired on attaining 52 years of age.

Note: Stewart is also entitled to the medal for ‘North West Frontier 1908’. Sold with an article from the O.M.R.S. Journal on the background to the award of the N.G.S. ‘Persian Gulf’ to certain army and police officers by Major M. C. Spurrier. He confirms Major Stewart as having been borne in H.M.S. Perseus in 1912 and being shown in the Indian army lists of April and July 1912 as being ‘at Jask’.