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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 410

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Trooper J. W. Orr. C. Lt. Horse), officially engraved naming, good very fine

Provenance:
Baldwins, April 2003.

John Williams Orr was born on 21 January 1867 at Calcutta, son of John and Lucy Orr. His father was a solicitor and young Orr followed his father into that profession, coming back to England to sit his examinations in 1884. He then returned to Calcutta to join his father's firm Orr, Johnson & Robertson of Old Post Office Street.

It was in 1895 that he joined the Calcutta Light Horse, one of the most fêted Indian Volunteer units. He was an active member and in August 1897 came second in their tent pegging competition, second in the April 1898 quarterly Wapenshaw Shooting competition and won the 1901-02 tent pegging challenge bowl, at that time recorded as a Troop Sergeant-Major. Orr married Ada Howlett at Godalming and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in November 1906, being admitted in January 1907. Joining the Bengal Civil Service in January 1908, Orr is noted as a Trooper on the Calcutta Light Horse roll of August 1914 and was awarded his Medal as per Indian Army Order 625 of November 1914. Deputy Superintendent & Remembrancer of Legal Affairs at the Bengal High Court in 1915, he retired to Braunton, Barnstaple, Devon and died in January 1947.

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Estimate
£240 to £280

Starting price
£190