Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain F. Powell, Indian Army, late Bedfordshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed, cleaned/gilded, mounted court style for wear, very fine and better (7) £900-1100

M.C. London Gazette 17 January 1916. ‘Second Lieutenant (temporary Lieutenant) (Unattached List, Indian Army).’

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916; 27 August 1918.

Frank Powell was commissioned from Bedford Grammar School O.T.C. into the Unattached List of the Indian Army on 8 August 1914. Attached to the Bedfordshire Regiment as a Temporary Lieutenant in October 1914, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 19 December 1915. He served there until 25 June 1915 and was wounded. Promoted to Lieutenant in the Indian Army in September 1915, he then served in Iraq with the Garhwal Rifles, March 1917-September 1918 and in Greek Macedonia, September-October 1918. Attaining the rank of Captain in August 1918, he served with the 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles. Captain Powell retired from the Indian Army due to ill health in 1932. Served with the Home Guard in 1941 as a Captain, Adjutant and Quartermaster. With copied research.