Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Waziristan 1923 operations M.C. group of three awarded to Lieutenant B. P. Ross-Hurst, Indian Army, who was attached to the Tochi Scouts at the time of winning his decoration

Military Cross, G.V.R.; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Waziristan 1921-24 (Lt. B. P. Ross-Hurst, Recruiting Corps); Jubilee 1935, very fine and better (3) £1600-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The collection of Medals formed by the Late Clive Nowell.

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Just seven M.Cs were gazetted in 1923 for the Waziristan operations - British Gallantry Awards, by Abbott & Tamplin, refers.

M.C. London Gazette 12 June 1923.

On 9 February 1923, at Azdi Khel (Makin), during the withdrawal, this officer delivered a most successful counter-attack with the enemy at under fifty yards range. By his quick grasp of the situation, he enabled the evacuation of the wounded to be carried out.

Brian Plunkett Ross-Hurst, who was born in June 1898, was first commissioned on the Unattached List in January 1918, and joined the Indian Army in the following month. Advanced to Lieutenant in January 1919, while attached to the 2nd Battalion, 55th Coke’s Rifles, and to Captain in the 12th Frontier Force Regiment in January 1923, he was attached to the Tochi Scouts at the time of the above related action at Azdi Khel in Waziristan - adding a “mention” to his accolades in the following year (London Gazette 30 May 1924 refers.

Ross-Hurst next joined the Political Department, and by early 1930 he was serving as an Assistant Commissioner at Hangu in the North West Frontier Provinces, in which capacity he likely qualified for the Jubilee Medal in 1935; he does not, however, appear to have returned to military service in the 1939-45 War.