Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major W. L. Conran, 125th Bombay Native Infantry (Napier’s Rifles), late Royal Irish Fusiliers

Delhi Durbar 1903, silver; Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (Lieut. W. L. Conran, 1/R.I. Fus:); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieutenant W. L. Conran, 23rd Bo. Infy.) small official correction to unit; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Captn. W. L. Conran 25th Bo. Rifles) small official correction to surname; China 1900, no clasp (Captn: W. L. Conran 25th Bo. Rifles); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, original court-style mounting but ribbons a little distressed, toned, very fine and better (6) £1,000-£1,400

William Loraine Conran was born in 1862 and educated at Cheltenham College. He was first commissioned, ex-Sandhurst, on 10 May 1882, as Lieutenant in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, with whom he served at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 (Medal with Clasp and Khedive’s Star). He was appointed to the Bombay Staff Corps on 20 October 1884, and served with the Burmese Expedition in 1885-88 in command of the Mounted Infantry of the 23rd Bombay Light Infantry (Medal with two Clasps). From April 1894 he was employed in the Foreign Department. He is listed as being 'on special duty in Rajputana' April 1895 to January 1896, and served in the campaign on the North West Frontier under Sir William Lockhart in 1897-98 with the Tirah Expeditionary Force (Medal with two Clasps). In 1899 he is listed as 'Unpaid Attaché, Intelligence Branch, Q.M.G.'s Dept.' From July 1900 to October 1905 he was a Special Service Officer with the Intelligence Branch, Q.M.G.'s Dept., serving with the Imperial Service Troops in China (Medal). He was promoted Major on l0 July 1901, and Second-in-Command, 125th Rifles, on 12 May 1903. He died in London on 30 August 1909.