Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine inter-War K.P.M. group of three awarded to Temporary Lieutenant Colonel A. C. E. Caiger, Indian Army and Burma Police, late County of London Yeomanry, who directed his men up a steep cliff face and then led a frontal attack against a ‘firebrand’ enemy and his outlaw supporters holed up in a converted Burmese monastery

King’s Police Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Capt. Arthur C. E. Caiger. I.A. Asst. Commdt. Burma Mil. Pol.) on gallantry riband; British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. A. C. E. Caiger); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. A. C. E. Caiger.) good very fine (3) £600-£800

K.P.M. London Gazette 1 January 1923.
The official citation published in The Gazette of India Extraordinary on 1 January 1923, states: ‘Late in 1919 information was received that a large body of outlaws intended to invade British territory from China. In December 1919 Captain Caiger was sent out to command an outpost to prevent these outlaws from crossing the border. In March 1920 a body of 47 armed men crossed the border and was driven out with loss, the leader, one Eing Da escaping. During the rains three temporary outposts were maintained on the Frontier under the command of Captain Caiger, who set to work to try and capture Eing Da and other leaders.

In October he was rewarded by having one Man Chilu, a brother-in-law of Eing Da’s, arrested. By perseverance and tact he persuaded some loyal Shans to go far into China to obtain information about Eing Da, and on the night of the 31st December 1920 the Shans, acting under Captain Caiger’s orders, ran Eing Da to earth and arrested him. This left one dangerous firebrand named the Kyemong of Tawngma on the border. The temporary outposts were then withdrawn. On the 19th March 1922 a strong body of outlaws under the Kyemong of Tawngma descended on the Muse, in the Northern Shan States, burnt some houses and invested a monastery which was strengthened and converted into a Fort. Captain Caiger was despatched from Lashio with a party of Mounted Infantry, and by long and arduous marches, arrived on the 23rd March in time to take part in an attack on the enemy’s fort. He was detailed to lead the frontal attack and had to advance over an open plain and then to scale a steep cliff before he reached the fort. Captain Caiger led his men most gallantly under a very heavy fire from the fort and succeeded in driving out the outlaws with very heavy loss.’

Arthur Clarence Everett Caiger was born in West Ham, London, on 29 June 1895, the son of a bank manager. Educated at Whitgift School, he enlisted as a Trooper in the 3/3rd County of London Yeomanry on 26 August 1914 and was appointed to a commission in the 1/1st County of London Yeomanry on 8 November 1915. Transferred to the Indian Army 16 September 1917, he served as Captain in the Indian Army Service Corps (14th District Supply Company) from 27 July 1920 and was raised Major in the 18th Motor Transport Corps on 27 July 1934.

Transferred to the Special Unemployed List 22 November 1937, Caiger was recalled to Special Command during the Second World War and was appointed General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, in the rank of Temporary Lieutenant Colonel on 15 October 1941. Appointed G.S.O. at the Directorate of Military Training and Assistant Director of Transport, Supplies and Transport Services on 21 November 1944, he retired in the spring of 1947.

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