Orders, Decorations and Medals

An I.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant Charles Alfred Stanley Perry, Assam Valley Light Horse

The Imperial Service Order, G.V.R., silver, gold and enamels, unnamed, some blue enamel lost; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); Coronation 1902, bronze; Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse engraved, ‘Lt. C. A. S. Perry, 6th Assam Valley Lt. Horse’, with top brooch bar; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Serjt., Assam Valley Lt. Horse) engraved naming, mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (6) £500-600

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

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I.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1933. ‘For unassuming and efficient work for nearly 30 years in the post of Registrar of the Public Works Department Secretariat which has been specially noted on by a succession of Chief Engineers and Secretaries to Government in the Public Works Department’.

Charles Alfred Stanley Perry served in the East Coast Volunteer Rifles. As a Lance-Sergeant he was part of the Indian Volunteer Coronation Contingent, for which services he received the Coronation Medal in bronze. Latterly in the Assam Valley Light Horse he was awarded the Volunteer Long Service Medal as a Serjeant, the award being notified in the I.A.O. No. 521 of September 1912. Perry was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Assam Valley Light Horse on 1 July 1914 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 February 1917. In January 1918 he was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the I.A.R.O. He served in the Supply and Transport Corps from 31 January 1918 and was with 8 (Lucknow) Divisional Supply Company. He was advanced to Lieutenant, I.A.R.O., in January 1919. Perry was then awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, published in the Gazette of India of 21 May 1921. He resigned his commission from the I.A.R.O. on 1 May 1922.

In civilian life, prior to the Great War, he was Superintendent of the Public Works Secretariat of Assam. After the war he was Registrar. In 1933 Perry was appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order in his capacity as Registrar, Public Works Department, Assam Secretariat. With copied research.