Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (499 Pte. W. W. Nind. 42 A.B. Ry. Bn. I.D.F.) edge prepared prior to naming, nearly extremely fine £40-£50

C.I.E. London Gazette 1 January 1936: William Walker Nind, Esq., Imperial Customs Service, Officiating Member, Central Board of Revenue.

William Walker Nind was born on 26 September 1882, theson of Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Nind, and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Indian Imperial Customs Service in 1906 and served as a Collector of Customs in Rangoon, Chittagong, Bombay, and Calcutta. He served as part of the British Delegation at the Anglo-Afghan Trade Conference, 1922-23, and as Leader of the Indian Trade Delegation to Afghanistan in 1934. His final appointment was as Officiating Member, Central Board of Revenue from April 1935. For his services he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1936 New Year’s Honours’ List. He retired in 1937, and died in Oxford on 11 November 1964.

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