Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Marlborough College Officers’ Training Corps, Medal of Merit, obv. uniformed bust of Lieutenant-Colonel Curzon Wyllie, left, wearing orders and medals, ‘Fear God Honour the King’; rev. inscription, ‘Marlborough College Officers’ Training Corps Junior Division, For Merit and in memory of Curzon Wyllie, Lieut. Colonel, Indian Army, K.C.I.E., C.V.O., Oct. 5th 1848 - July 1st 1909. Blameless Fearless Beloved. He lived and died in faithful service to God, to his Sovereign and his Country’, 50mm., silver, unnamed, good very fine

William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was born in Cheltenham on 5 October 1848, the youngest son of General Sir William Wyllie. Educated at Marlborough and Sandhurst, he was commissioned an Ensign in the 106th L.I. 1866. Entering the Indian Staff Corps in 1869, he joined the Oudh Commission in September 1870. Transferring to the Political Department in 1879, he served in Beluchistan under Sir Robert Sandeman during the Afghan War, 1879-80 and accompanied General Sir Robert Phayre’s force in the relief of Kandahar. In 1881 he was appointed Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras and was subsequently Resident in Nepal, Governor-General’s Agent in Central India and thence Rajputana and in 1901, Political A.D.C. to the Secretary of State for India. Created a C.I.E. in 1881, K.C.I.E. in 1902 and C.V.O. in 1907, he died on 1 July 1909.