Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. To coincide with the OMRS Convention

A Victorian Kaisar-I-Hind group of three awarded to Mr A. E. Orr, Executive Engineer, Public Work Department, and Second Lieutenant, Indian Labour Corps

Kaisar-I-Hind, V.R., 2nd class, silver, hallmarked London 1900, complete with top suspension; British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. A. E. Orr) very fine (3) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to Civilians from the Collection of John Tamplin.

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Adolphe Ernest Orr was born on 8 July 1861, and was educated at Brighton and in London. He then passed into the Royal Indian Engineering College at Cooper’s Hill in 1880, and went out to India in October 1884. He joined the Public Works Department, as an Assistant Engineer, Second Grade, in September 1883. He was then with the Railway Branch in the Punjab. Orr worked on numerous P.W.D. projects, including the survey for the Sind Sagar State Railway 1884-85, and on the Patiala Railway Survey in 1887.

Orr was awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind, 2nd Class, on 23 May 1900, at which time he held the position of Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, and Divisional Famine Officer at Hissar in the Punjab. In May 1904 he was Under-Secretary to the Government in the Buildings and Roads Branch at Lahore, and was subsequently a Superintending Engineer in February 1912. Orr retired from the Public Works Department in July 1916. During the Great War he was appointed a temporary Second Lieutenant serving with the 53rd (Santhal) Company, Indian Labour Corps. He served in France from 1 July 1917. He subsequently lived in London, and then at Oxhey Lodge Farm, Watford, where he died on 9 December 1928, aged 67. Sold with full research.