Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Kaisar-i-Hind group of three awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Wickens Simkins, Assam Valley Light Horse

Kaisar-I-Hind, E.VII.R., 2nd class, silver, with top brooch bar; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved, ‘Captain C. W. Simkins, Assam Valley Lt. Horse’, with top brooch bar; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Captn. Assam Valy. Lt. Horse) engraved naming, mounted court style for wear, nearly extremely fine (3) £400-450

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

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Kaisar-i-Hind Gazette of India 6 January 1906.

Charles Wickens Simkins was a Tea Planter and latterly the General Manager of the Amguri Tea Estate at Sibsagar in Assam, being awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind for his services as such in 1906. After serving in the ranks of the Volunteers, he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Assam Valley Light Horse on 29 June 1895. He was advanced to Lieutenant in September 1898 and Captain in November 1906. As a Captain he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, this notified in the I.A.O. 123 of February 1910. He was promoted to Major in March 1912 and Lieutenant-Colonel in November 1916. By the Gazette of India of 24 August 1912 he was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration. Simkins died on 16 October 1942 at Foxhold, Crookham, Newbury, Berkshire. One of his sons, Charles Anthony Simkins, became the Deputy Director of M.I.5. With copied research.