Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Lieutenant-Colonel T. L. Ovens, 11th Rajputs, Indian Army

1914-15 Star (Capt. T. L. Ovens. 11/Rajputs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. T. L. Ovens.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Maj. T. L. Ovens 11 Rajputs.) small area of erasure after naming; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, very fine (5) £160-£200

Thomas Leslie Ovens was born in 1883 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Unattached List, Indian Army, on 18 January 1902. Posted to the 11th Rajputs, he was extra-regimentally employed on the Western Front from 25 November 1914, and was wounded in action on 10 March 1915; subsequently extra-regimentally employed in Mesopotamia in 1916, he was again wounded on operations in South Waziristan in 1917. He was subsequently advanced Lieutenant-Colonel and was appointed Commandant, 3/7th Rajputs, on 2 August 1927. He relinquished his command and retired in 1931, and died in 1976.