Six: Temporary Major N. W. Imrie, Indian Army, late Calcutta Light Horse and Royal Field Art...

Six: Temporary Major N. W. Imrie, Indian Army, late Calcutta Light Horse and Royal Field Artillery British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. N. W. Imrie) erasure of ‘2’ before ‘Lieut.’ on both; Defence and War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, India (Cpl. N. W. Irmie. Cal. L.H., A.F.I.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1916, with bronze palm on riband, mounted court style for wear, some contact marks, very fine (6) £180-220 --- Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2009. Norman William Imrie was born in Moss Side, Manchester, on 15 August 1892. He served in the ranks of Royal Army Service Corps (Territorial), November 1908-August 1911 and during the Great War he served in the ranks of the Royal Field Artillery from December 1915 to January 1918. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery Special Reserve on 21 January 1918 and was promoted to Lieutenant on 21 July 1919. During the war he served on the Western Front from February to August 1918, being gassed during the ‘August Advance’; and in Turkey from June to October 1919. According to his ‘Record of Services Officers, Indian Services’ he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in June 1918 (not found in the London Gazette). He was released from military service in March 1920. Between the war, Imrie went to India and there joined the Army in India Reserve of Officers, being appointed Captain in October 1926. He served with the Artillery, firstly with the Pack Artillery Training Centre at Lucknow and was later at Meerut. Serving in the Auxiliary Forces India, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (India) as a Corporal in the Calcutta Light Horse, this announced in I.A.O. 536 of June 1938. During the Second World War Imrie returned to active service and was granted an emergency commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army on 30 November 1940. He was subsequently promoted to War Substantive Captain in December 1941 and became a Temporary Major, December 1941 to January 1943. He served as an officer with a prisoner-of-war camp at Ramgarh, November 1940-September 1941, and was then with the Corps of Indian Engineers at Jullundur, September-November 1941, after which he served as D.A.D. Tn. (Stores) in Persia, January 1942-January 1943. Until November 1944 he was then on regimental duty at Jullundur and Baroda. He was S.S.O. Baroda from December 1946. Sold with recipient’s identity disc.