Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Mr. R. I. Bruce, C.I.E., Indian Provincial Civil Service, late Commissioner in the Punjab
Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (Mr. R. J. Bruce, Pol. Dept.); India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-95 (Mr. R. I. Bruce, C.I.E., Punjab Comsn.) extremely fine (2) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals formed by the late Alan Wolfe.

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Richard Isaac Bruce was born in 1840, son of Jonathan Bruce of Miltown Castle, Co. Cork. He served with the Political Department in Afghanistan 188-79 (despatches, medal); on the North West Frontier, in the Zhob Valley Expedition, including the affair at Dowlatzai, in 1884; in the Zhob Valley Expedition of 1890 (despatches); received the special thanks and commendation of H.M.’s Secretary of State for India for distinguished services in connection with the opening of the Gomal Pass in 1890; appointed British Commissioner of the Afghan-Waziristan Delimitation Commission, 1894; participated in the Waziristan Expedition of 1894-95, including action at Wano in 1894 (despatches, medal with clasp); received on several occasions the thanks of the Government of India for distinguished frontier services. Richard Bruce was created a Companion of the Indian Empire in 1881. He died at Teddington on 29 January 1924. See Lot 403 for the group awarded to his son, Lieutenant-Colonel C. E. Bruce, C.S.I., C.I.E., C.B.E., Indian Political Department.