Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted miniature dress medal group of seven attributed to Colonel R. W. Henderson, Indian Army, late East Kent Regiment

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar; India General Service 1895-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-8, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-8; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Transvaal, South Africa 1902; Tibet 1903-04, no clasp; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21, mounted as worn, some with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (7) £140-180

D.S.O. London Gazette 3 June 1918. ‘Henderson, Robert Wynne, Major, Indian Cavalry’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 16 January 1918 (Allenby, Egypt); 14 June 1918 (Allenby, Egypt).

Robert Wynne Henderson was born on 20th August, 1874. Commissioned on 10 August, 1894., he took part in the Chitral 1895 operations receiving the Indian General Service Medal with Relief of Chitral clasp; Later served during operations in the Samana and Kurram Valley August– September 1897; Buner and Tirah 1897-98 receiving three further clasps. Henderson served during the South African War in operations in the Transvaal during April-May 1902, whilst employed with Steinaecker’s Horse.

During the Great War he served with the Egyptian Field Force, 16 January 1916-14 June 1918 being mentioned in despatches twice, serving with the 20th Deccan Horse and 7th Cavalry. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 6 February, 1920.

With copied research.