Orders, Decorations and Medals

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Lieut. J. H. Towle, Punjab L.H. A.F.I.) impressed naming, extremely fine £80-100

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

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John Howard Towle was born in Nottingham on 2 August 1878. Educated at Nottingham High School, he was then admitted as a Sizar at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He was a Wood’s Exhibitioner in 1899 and gained a B.A. in 1900 and M.A. in 1905. Going to India, Towle was a Professor (later a Senior Professor) at the Mahomedan-Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh. After the Great War he joined the Indian Education Service in 1919 and was appointed Assistant Director of Public Instruction. He was Director of Public Instruction for the Punjab, 1920-22 and Director of Public Instruction for the North-West Frontier Province, from 1922 until he retired in 1933.

in June 1911 Towle was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the United Provinces Horse, 2nd (Northern) Regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant in July 1912 and was transferred to the General List in January 1923. On the formation of the Auxiliary Forces (India), he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Punjab Light Horse, on 7 April 1919. In that rank he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, published in the I.A.O. 757 of November 1923.

Towle retired to England and died on 31 July 1946 at Easton Hall, Stamford. With copied research.