Orders, Decorations and Medals

The mounted group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel C. W. Stevens, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals; India General Service 1908-35, 4 clasps, Afghanistan N.W. Frontier 1919, Waziristan 1919-21, N.W. Frontier 1930-31, Mohmand 1933, M.I.D. oak leaf; 1939-35 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, cleaned and re-ribboned, mounted court style for wear, fine and better (7) £30-50

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 June 1921 (Waziristan) and 19 December 1946 (Malaya in 1942).

Cyril Walter Stevens was born on 4 August 1893 and enlisted into the 1/28th London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles) as a Private on 5 August 1914. He served with them in France until 20 March 1915, when he was commissioned into the Cameronians as a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant. He transferred to the Indian Army in March 1918 and was commissioned into the 1/30th Punjabis in August 1918 and to the 93rd Burma Infantry in April 1919. Later served in the R.I.A.S.C. Promoted to Major in Decemeber 1933 and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1941; he was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in 1942.