Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major Walter Culpepper Stanser Ingles, Ceylon Garrison Artillery

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved, ‘Major W. C. Stanser Ingles, Ceylon Garrison Artillery Reserve’, with brooch bar, in case of issue; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Capt. Walter Culpepper Stanser Ingles, Ceylon Garrison Artillery); together with a mounted pair of miniature medals, as above but second is a Volunteer Force Long Service, good very fine and better (4) £280-320

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

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Walter Culpepper Stanser Ingles was born in Colchester, Essex on 23 November 1868. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey. Ingles went out to Ceylon and entered the Civil Service, and became Assistant Surveyor in January 1890. He became District Surveyor, March 1897; Assistant and Superintendent, May 1897; Acting Superintendent of Trigometrical Survey, January 1902; Acting Assistant Surveyor-General, June 1908, and Surveyor-General, November 1915. He also became a Member of the Legislative Council and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Ingles also served in the Ceylon Volunteers. After serving in the ranks of the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Ceylon Volunteer Artillery on 13 February 1909. He was promoted to Lieutenant, February 1911, and a Captain on the Reserve in September 1915 on receiving his appointment as Surveyor-General, Ceylon. He was mobilised for War Service in Ceylon, 6 August 1914-24 September 1915. After the Great War he returned to the Active List, being appointed a Captain in October 1921, and became a Major on the Reserve in September 1923. Ingles was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. Medal by the Ceylon Government Gazette of 11 November 1921, and the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration by the Ceylon Government Gazette of 16 January 1925. Latterly living in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, he died on 29 July 1953. Sold with copied research.