Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Major and Commissary L. J. D. Wiltshire, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, late Supply and Transport Corps

1914 Star (S. Sergt. L. J. D. Wiltshire. S. & T. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (S-Sergt. L. J. D. Wiltshire, S.T.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (10834 S.Sjt. L. J. D. Wiltshire. S. & T. Corps.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Major. L. J. D. Wiltshire. R.I.A.S.C.); Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S.Sergt. L. D. J. Wiltshire. S. & T. Corps.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S. Sgt. L. J. D. Wiltshire. S. & T.C.) mounted for dispaly, light contact marks, generally very fine and better (9) £400-£500

Leonard John Duncan Wiltshire was born on 26 September 1885. He served as Staff Sergeant in the Indian Expeditionary Force, 1914-16, on board H.M.S. Sicilia, and later in the Bushire Field Force 1918-19, and was awarded the G.S.M. with clasp South Persia, for service as Staff Sergeant, I.A.S.C., 144 Tally Section. He was appointed Assistant Commissary on 1 January 1935 (with rank of Lieutenant), and was advanced Deputy Commissary (Captain) on 1 January 1936 and Commissary (Major) on 1 January 1937. He is confirmed on the medal roll for the 1935 Jubilee Medal as Lieut, (A.C.) 6 D.C.C., Trimulgherry. He retired on 26 September 1938 and died in Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1965.