Orders, Decorations and Medals

A C.I.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel E. A. F. Redl, Indian Army

The Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamels; 1914-15 Star (Major, 113/Infy.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lt. Col., 1-113 Infy) officially re-impressed; Delhi Durbar 1911; Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 1 clasp, Sudan 1899 (Lieut., I.S.C.) good very fine (7) £500-600

Ernest Arthur Frederick Redl was born on 1 August 1869 and was first commissioned into the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in March 1890. He served with the Egyptian Army from December 1898 until April 1903 with the rank of Bimbashi. He saw active service with the 4th Bn. Egyptian Army in the Nile Expedition of 1899 (Egyptian Medal with clasp), and with the Camel Corps in Aden 1903-04 (mentioned in despatches Gazette of India No. 43 of 1905). He served at Staff Headquarters, India, 1906-09, and as Assistant Secretary in the Army Department, India, 1909-14, including a period as Military Attache at Meshed 1909-13. He served during the Great War with the 113th Infantry in France, Mesopotamia, and Persia (despatches London Gazette 20 January 1920), and was awarded the C.I.E. in 1917. He retired in 1921 having also been awarded the C.M.G. in 1919.