Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Ar. Sgt. S. F. Samson, Poona Voltr. Rfls.)

Five: attributed to Assistant Accountant General Gideon Samson, Pakistan Army, late 10th Baluch Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued; together with two silver medals, one inscribed, ‘B.B.C.I. I.S.H. Tournament Runner Up 1935’

Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, in lady’s card box of issue, attributed to Rachel Samson, good very fine and better (9) £80-100

Gideon Samson was born in Mhow on 6 September 1898. He was first commissioned in July 1941, serving with the 10th Baluch Regiment; was appointed a war substantive Lieutenant in October 1942 and was Temporary Captain until March 1944. Following the independence of India in 1947 he opted to serve with the Pakistan Army and subsequently became Assistant Accountant General.

Medals to Gideon Samson with British Forces Identity Card - bearing photograph; riband bar, postcards (9 unused) of Quetta; postcard to 2nd Lieutenant G. Samson at Baghdad; photographs (13) - some of Gideon Samson, one of Gideon and his wife Rachel.

The medal to Rachel Samson sold with C-in-C. India letter of thanks for ‘your very valuable war service in the cause of troops welfare’, dated New Delhi, 1947, with envelope addressed to ‘Mrs Samson, 84 Garden Quarters West, Karachi’, and with named award document for the Coronation Medal together with forwarding slip addressed to ‘Mrs R. Samson, c/o Red Cross Society, Karachi’. Also with handwritten biographical and service details of both Gideon and Rachel provided by their daughter.