Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Colonel W. T. Fairbrother, Indian Army

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Lt., 29th Ben. N.I.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Sikkim 1888 (Captn., 13th Bl. Infy.) correction to regiment; India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Waziristan 1901-2 (Major, 13th Bl. Infy.); Delhi Durbar 1903, unnamed, slight contact marks, good very fine (4) £500-600

William Tomes Fairbrother was born on 19 July 1856. He was commissioned into the 11th Foot in February 1875 and entered the Indian Army in July 1878. In the Afghan War of 1878-80, he served in the Bazar Valley Expedition; saw action on the Gara Heights near Kam Dakka and served in the Zaimukhit Expedition, seeing action at Zawa. Further service followed in Sikkim, 1888; Abor, 1894; in the relief of Chitral, 1895 and on the N.W. Frontier in Waziristan, 1901-02. He was appointed a Brevet-Colonel in February 1904. Colonel Fairbrother ceased to be employed with the Indian Army on 3 February 1903 and was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1909. He died in 1924. Sold with copied service details and with ornate brooch bars.