Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.B. group of four awarded to Major General F. F. Minchin, Royal Artillery

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath (Military) C.B., neck badge in silver-gilt and enamels; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (Captn., No. 7 By. 1st Bde. C.P. Dn. R.A.); British War Medal (Maj. Gen.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, good very fine (4) £550-600

C.B. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 January 1917.

Frederick Falkiner Minchin served in the Burmese Expedition of 1887-89, as a Captain with the artillery of the Upper Burma Force (Medal and clasp). During the Great War he served as Director of the Indain Ordnance Department 1914-15, and later as Military Adviser to the Ministry of Munitions 1915-18. In his latter capacity he was sent to America to organise the supply of munitions there. His services in this respect were recognised by all the prominent Americans with whom he came in touch, notably Mr. Pierrepoint Morgan. Under him the organisation in America reached a high pitch of perfection, and this country was saved much time and money. Under orders from the Ministry of Munitions and at the request of the then Russian Government, he also reorganised the supply of Russian munitions in America. After his return from America, General Minchin performed similar services in organising the huge munition factories then being erected in India. He retired in 1918 and died from a heart disease, contracted in India, on 11 July 1922.