Three: Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen Montgomery Lang, Indian Army

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-95 (Lieutt., 1st Bn. 1st Gurkhas); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. emblem (Lt. Col.) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (3) £240-280

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1920.

Ewan Montgomery Lang was born on 2 May 1870. He was commissioned from the Royal Military College, Woolwich, as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 27 July 1889. He was appointed to the Indian Staff Corps, attached to the 1st Gurkhas in March 1892 and was promoted to Lieutenant in July the same year. Serving with the 1st Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles during the Waziristan campaign, 1894-95, he took part in the action at Wana in which the battalion bore the brunt of the fighting and casualties. Lang was appointed Adjutant in May 1899 and promoted to Captain in July 1900. He was appointed a Double Company Commander of the 1-1 G.R. in October 1903 and last appeared in the Indian Army List in 1907. Lang reappeared in 1917 as Commandant of the 4/39th Garhwal Rifles, ranked as Major and Acting Lieutenant-Colonel. The regiment was renamed the 4/39th Kumaon Rifles in November 1917 and 1/50th Kumaon Rifles in April 1918. Lieutenant-Colonel Lang died in 1948. With copied research. M.I.D. not confirmed.