Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. Stedman, 4th Gurkhas

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Lt., I.A.R.O.); British War and Victory Medals (2-Lt.) ‘Steadman’ on these two; India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., 1-4 Grks.) good very fine (5) £500-600

See Colour Plate V

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1917: ‘Temporary Lieutenant Howard Stedman, Indian Army.’

Served in France and Belgium, May 1915 to April 1917 (wounded, M.C.); Chin and Kuki Hills, 1 December 1917 to 15 May 1919; Waziristan 1919-23, Wana (despatches London Gazette 30 May 1924).