Orders, Decorations and Medals

Nine: Colonel L. A. Bennett, Indian Army
1914-15 Star, unnamed, not erased, issued by Government of India; British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Capt., 3-124 Bal. Infy.); India General Service 1908-35, 3 clasps, North West Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933, North West Frontier 1935, with oak leaf M.I.D. emblem (Capt., I.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal; India Service Medal, good very fine (9) £400-450

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 May 1936.

Leslie Arthur Bennett served with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France from March 1915; and in Egypt and Mesopotamia from June 1915. He was wounded in action at Shaikh Saad, Mesopotamia, on 7 January 1916. Sold with full record of service which confirms all medals and clasps. Colonel Bennett retired in May 1946.