Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Acting Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander George Hillman, Indian Army Ordnance Corps

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5466688 S-Sgt., I.A.O.C.) slight edge bruise; War and India Service Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., India (S-Sjt., I.A.O.C.); India Independence Medal 1947 (OS-382 T/Maj., B.S.S.L.) mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (5) £120-160

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

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Alexander George Hillman originally served in the Hampshire Regiment. In 1937 as a Staff Sergeant on the Indian Unattached List, serving with the I.A.O.C., he was awarded the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal, this notified in I.A.O. 922 of October 1937. Hillman was appointed an Assistant Commissary with the rank of Lieutenant on 19 January 1942. He was promoted to Substantive Captain on 16 December 1943. He continued to serve with the Indian Army after Independence in 1947, and in July 1948 was promoted to Acting Lieutenant-Colonel. Sold with copied research.