Scottish Royal Field Artillery Lowland Brigade (Edinburgh Bt...

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£1,700

Scottish Royal Field Artillery Lowland Brigade (Edinburgh Bty) Distinguished Service Order, DSO , TD, MID Medal Group. Awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Edward James Inches DSO TD. Comprising: Distinguished Service Order, MAJOR E.J INCHES RFA(T), 1st January 1917 (Engraved), 1914/15 Star MAJOR RFA, British War Medal, Victory Medal, MID LT COL, Territorial Decoration (GVR HM London 1919) Engraved to the reverse "Lt. Col. E.J. INCHES DSO 1st Lowland Bde RFA". GC Medals have been cleaned and mounted court style. Housed in a Spink case. Accompanied by original commission scroll appointing Inches a Second Lieutenant in the Volunteer Force March 1900. This unusually signed in ink Edward R & I (after January 1901 when Queen Victoria died and Edward became King Edward VII). Lieutenant Colonel Edward James Inches announcement of the DSO appeared in the London Gazette on the 1st January 1919 and he was Mentioned in Dispatches on the 4th January 1917. He was commissioned into the Volunteer Force 1st City of Edinburgh Battery Royal Field Artillery Volunteers and was promoted to Captain in January 1902. At the outbreak of the Great War he was commanding the Battery and landed in France on the 13th June 1915. He was promoted to the rank of Lt Col in August 1916 and from September 1917 to August 1918 he commanded the 211 Brigade RFA. He retired shortly after the war. A resident of Princess Street Edinburgh and a clock maker, he was given a Royal Warrant in 1918, he was appointed a JP and later Deputy County Lieutenant. He died in 1934