Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War C.B., C.M.G. group of six awarded to Colonel C. M. Cartwright, Indian Army

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath (Military), C.B., silver-gilt and enamels; The Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels, enamel chip to one arm; 1914-15 Star (Col., I.A.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Col.); Delhi Durbar 1911, generally good very fine or better (6) £600-800

C.B. London Gazette 1916.

C.M.G. London Gazette 1918.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Charles Marling Cartwright was born in 1862; commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Royal Irish Fusiliers 1881; transferred to the 20th Bombay Infantry 1883; 36th Jacob’s Horse 1886, which regiment he commanded 1907 to 1912; thanked twice by Bombay Government for services in Mekran and Lower Sind; served during the Great War and retired in 1920.