Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Second War C.B. and Great War M.C. group of eleven awarded to Major-General Roland Richardson, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army

The Most Honourable Order of The Bath, C.B. (Military) neck badge, silver-gilt and enamels; Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, S. Persia, Kurdistan (Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt., 1/55/Rfls.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Lt. Col., 1-13 F.F. Rif.); 1939-45 Star; Defence & War Medals; Indian Independence Medal 1947 (A1-427 Maj.-Genl.) very fine and better (11) £1200-1500

See Colour Plate V

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918: ‘Lieut., Coke’s Rifles, attached Pathans, Indian Army.’

Roland Richardson was born on 25 March 1896 and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, Indian Army, in 1915. He served during the Great War (Military Cross); South Persia 1918-19; Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919; Waziristan 1919-20; Kurdistan 1923; North West Frontier 1936-37 (despatches London Gazette 18 February 1938). Colonel 1940; Temporary Major-General 1943; Major-General 1944; Companion of the Bath 1944. Major-General Roland Richardson retired in 1948 and went to live in Cashel, Rhodesia, where he died on 20 November 1973.