Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Major D. McCreadie, Rangoon Battalion, Burma Auxiliary Force, late Indian Army

British War Medal 1914-20 (2-Lieut. D. Mc. Creadie); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut. D. Mc. Creadie, 2 Q.V.O. S & M.) rank and name unofficially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937 (Capt. D. McCreadie, Rangoon Batt. B.A.F.) contemporarily engraved naming; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Burma, reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. David McCreadie, Rangoon Battn. Burma A.F.’, with integral top riband bar, lacquered, nearly very fine, rare (8) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, April 2001 (the Efficiency Decoration then noted as ‘lacking top bar’); John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.

David McCreadie was employed immediately prior to the Great War as an Assistant with Rowe & Co., General Importers, Rangoon, and remained in service with them until the early 1940’s when he was employed as an Assistant with Stuart, Smith & Allen, Chartered and Registered Agents, Rangoon. His ability to speak both Burmese and Hindustani would have been an advantage to both companies. He also served in the Military Forces, being appointed to the Indian Army Reserve of Officers on 24 June 1918 as a Second Lieutenant, and was advanced to Lieutenant on 24 June 1919. He served in the Great War and in the Third Afghan War with the 2nd Battalion Queen Victoria’s Own Sappers & Miners. Continuing his service after the war, McCreadie joined the Auxiliary Forces (India), and was appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Rangoon Battalion, A.F.(I) on 10 August 1928. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 10 August 1931 and Captain on 25 September 1935. The Rangoon Battalion subsequently became part of the Burma Auxiliary Force. At the time of the Coronation in 1937, Captain McCreadie formed part of the Burma Coronation Contingent, joining the contingent in the U.K. He was promoted to Major on 18 January 1939, and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration (Burma) in 1939, this notified in the Burma Gazette of 26 August 1939.

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Note: In The Efficiency Decoration, by J. M. A. Tamplin, McCreadie is listed as one of just 16 recipients of the Efficiency Decoration, Burma, whose names were gleaned from the Burma Gazette.