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A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and the Royal Household
1914-15 Star (Lt. E. P. M. Durand, 8/ Rajputs.); British War and Victory Medals, with riband-bar M.I.D. oak leaves; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. E. P. M. Durand Bart. 8 Rajputs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £280-320
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Sir Edward Percy Marion Durand, 2nd Baronet of Ruckley Grange, was born on 11 July 1884, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Durand, 1st Baronet, who served as British Resident in Nepal from 1888 to 1891, and for whom the Baronetcy, of Ruckley Grange in the County of Shropshire, was created on 8 April 1892. Educated at Wellington College, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 3 May 1905, being promoted Lieutenant on 28 July 1906. Transferring to the East Surrey Regiment, he was granted a Regular Commission as Second Lieutenant on 29 May 1907, before joining the Indian Army as a Lieutenant on 29 August 1909, and was posted to the 8th Rajputs. He served with them during the Great War in Mesopotamia from February 1915, and on the Staff as an Aide-de-Camp, and was promoted Captain on 1 September 1915. He retired due to ill-health on 23 December 1922, having received his Majority the day before.
Sir Edward Durand married Miss Vera Lucas-Tooth, daughter of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, Bt., in 1913, and succeeded his father to the Baronetcy on the latter’s death on 1 July 1920. A keen polo player whilst out in India, he wrote the book ‘Ponies’ Progress’, published in 1935. He died without issue on 4 March 1955, and was succeeded to the Baronetcy by his brother. The title is extant.
Sold together with a copy of Ponies’ Progress by Sir Edward Durand.
M.I.D. unconfirmed.
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1914-15 Star (Lt. E. P. M. Durand, 8/ Rajputs.); British War and Victory Medals, with riband-bar M.I.D. oak leaves; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt. E. P. M. Durand Bart. 8 Rajputs.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine (5) £280-320
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Sir Edward Percy Marion Durand, 2nd Baronet of Ruckley Grange, was born on 11 July 1884, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward Durand, 1st Baronet, who served as British Resident in Nepal from 1888 to 1891, and for whom the Baronetcy, of Ruckley Grange in the County of Shropshire, was created on 8 April 1892. Educated at Wellington College, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 5th (Militia) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 3 May 1905, being promoted Lieutenant on 28 July 1906. Transferring to the East Surrey Regiment, he was granted a Regular Commission as Second Lieutenant on 29 May 1907, before joining the Indian Army as a Lieutenant on 29 August 1909, and was posted to the 8th Rajputs. He served with them during the Great War in Mesopotamia from February 1915, and on the Staff as an Aide-de-Camp, and was promoted Captain on 1 September 1915. He retired due to ill-health on 23 December 1922, having received his Majority the day before.
Sir Edward Durand married Miss Vera Lucas-Tooth, daughter of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, Bt., in 1913, and succeeded his father to the Baronetcy on the latter’s death on 1 July 1920. A keen polo player whilst out in India, he wrote the book ‘Ponies’ Progress’, published in 1935. He died without issue on 4 March 1955, and was succeeded to the Baronetcy by his brother. The title is extant.
Sold together with a copy of Ponies’ Progress by Sir Edward Durand.
M.I.D. unconfirmed.
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