Four: Honorary Major Philip Stanley Doubell, Surma Valley Light Horse

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved, ‘Lieut. P. S. Doubell, Surma V.L.H., A.F.I.’, with top bar; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (2-Lt., The Surma V.L. Hrse. A.F.I.) impressed naming, mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (4) £240-280

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

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Philip Stanley Doubell was employed in the Tea Trade and was latterly the Manager of the Sephinjuri Bheel Tea Company Ltd. at Sylhet. A keen Volunteer, he served three years in the 1st Volunteer Battalion of The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) before moving to India. There he served in the Surma Valley Light Horse. He was granted a commission in the unit as a 2nd Lieutenant on 13 March 1913. On 28 April 1917 he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the I.A.R.O. As a such he served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 40th (Manipur) Company, Indian Labour Corps. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 28 April 1918. Doubell was promoted to Lieutenant in the Surma Valley Light Horse (A.F.I.) on 1 October 1920, and Captain on 1 October 1924. He was awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal, notified in I.A.O. 289 of May 1923, and the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, by the Gazette of India of 18 April 1925. Doubell resigned his commission as an Honorary Major on 3 April 1928. Returning then to England, he lived firstly at St. Francis, York Road, Broadstone, Dorset, then latterly at Tantivy, Combeinteignhead, Newton Abbot, Devon, dying on 1 April 1970. With copied research.