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

A Kaisar-I-Hind group of four awarded to Mrs Kathleen Le Clerc Fowle, Women’s Voluntary Service, and Temporary Junior Commander, Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India)

Kaisar-I-Hind, G.VI.R., 2nd class, silver, complete with top suspension buckle; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal, all unnamed as issued but sold with original warrant of appointment as 2nd Subaltern in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India), from June 1942, and companion set of miniature medals, very fine (8) £140-160

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

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Kathleen Sylvestre Sichel was born in Southampton on 17 March 1903. She became an artist, a Silver and Gold Medalist of the Paris Salon, and a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. She was married, on 23 November 1932, to John Le Clerc Fowle, then a Major in the Indian Army. He later became a Brigadier, C.B., C.I.E., and died in March 1978.

Much of their married life was spent in India. During the War, Mrs Fowle served in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India); she was appointed a Second Subaltern on 5 June 1942, was promoted to War Substantive Subaltern in January 1943, and at one time was a Temporary Junior Commander, an Intelligence Officer on the Staff of the Eastern Army.

Mrs Fowle was also in the Women’s Voluntary Service, and served as Chairwoman, W.V.S., at Jubbulpore, where her husband was Commander of the Jubbulpore Area. In this capacity she was awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind silver medal, announced in the Gazette of India Extraordinary of 13 June 1946. At the time of this award, Mrs Fowle was then living at Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire.

She exhibited her work extensively in London, both at the Royal Academy, and at various Bond Street galleries. She signed her work ‘Le Clerc Fowle’. Mrs Fowle died in London on 7 November 1992. Sold with full research.