MILITARY O.B.E & 3 BAR IGS 1854, SOUTH WALES BORDERERS OFFICER, LANDED GENTRY

1st type Military O.B.E & IGS 1854 With clasps for Burma 1885-7, Burma 1887-89 & Burma 1889-92
To- LT.R.T.PASSINGHAM.2nd.BN.S.WALES.BORD
Robert Townshend Anwyl-Passingham was born 16-10-1867 & was commissioned in to the South Wales Borderers 30-1-1886. He was attached to the Madras staff corps 3-8-188 & served with the 12th mounted infantry during the Burma campaigns. He was promoted to captain in 1897 & after service with the Burma military police. He went on to serve with the 72nd Punjabis as a Major. He was placed on retired pay in 1907 & appears on the army list from 1915 to 1822 as a non effective officer. He was awarded the Military O.B.E in the London gazette 7-6-1918 for his services as assistant director of recruiting in Wrexham. He is listed in Burkes handbook to the landed gentry as Anwyl-Passingham of Bala & the family estate was at Bryn-y-Groes Bala. He was a JP for the county & died at his brother residence in Chelsea in 1926. This pair of medals are his complete & only medal entitlement
NEF/GVF & Complete with medal roll details, London gazette details & other research including a copy of the recipients will & his death certificate

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