Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Captain James Miller Mushet, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteer Rifles

Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., reverse engraved, ‘Hony. Captain & Qr. Mr. J. M. Mushet, Bo. B. & C.I. Ry. Volr. Rifles’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1902, with top brooch bar, part of surname and unit corrected; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), E.VII.R. (Lt. & Qr. Mr. J. M. Mushet, 2d Bo. B. & C.I. Ry. Vols.) officially engraved naming, good very fine (2) £220-250

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

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James Miller Mushet was employed with the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway. After serving in the ranks of the B.B. & C.I. Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant on 11 December 1893. He served with the 2nd Battalion whose H.Q. was at Ajmere. In 1900 he was appointed Lieutenant and Quartermaster and two years later was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, published in G.O. No. 801 of August 1902. Mushet was granted the honorary rank of Captain in 1903. As such he was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, published in the Gazette of India of 9 July 1904. With copied research.