Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Pair: Colonel F. T. Ebden, Indian Army

Afghanistan 1878-80 (Cap., 23rd Bo. N.I.); India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 (Lieutt. Colonel, 23rd Bo. Infy.) one or two edge bruises, good very fine (2) £300-350

Francis Thomas Ebden was born in Ipswich in May 1839, the son of James Collett Ebden, Vicar of Great Stukeley, Huntingdon. Educated locally at Queen Elizabeth School, he obtained a Cadetship at Addiscombe in January 1857, but illness prevented him from finishing the course. Three years later, however, he was successful with a renewed application and was appointed a 2nd Lieutenant in the Bombay Army in December 1860.

Advanced to Lieutenant in October 1862, and appointed to the Bombay Staff Corps in April 1864, he served in the operations in Okamundel and Kathiawar between 1865-66. Ebden became a Captain in December 1872, in which rank he fought in the Second Afghan War with the 23rd Bombay Infantry, being invalided to England in September 1880. Further active service followed with the same unit in the Burma operations of 1885-87, as a Major, and on transferring to the 10th Bombay Infantry in May 1888, he remained in that theatre of war, ultimately as C.O. of the Battalion.

Ebden was advanced to Colonel in December 1890, returned to England in the following year and died at Ealing in January 1913.