An India born British'Memsahib's positively attributed 'pair' of India service miniature medals: Mrs Meta May Maude Briscoe Middleton

- Kaisar-i-Hind Medal. GV type with integral silver top bar, this with hinged pin fittings on reverse
- Coronation Medal 1937. Mounted on female 'Bow'. The mounting bar with hinged pin fittings on reverse

Sold together with:

- Soft-copy typescript recommendation for the KIH
- Soft-copy named certificate on Viceregal Lodge Simla, header for Coronation Medal, 12 May 1937

The medals un-named as issued

Medals Verification: Both medals confirmed as entitled, per below cited sources:

- Kaisar-I-Hind Medal. Silver: Gazette of India 12/06/41 & Civil & Military Gazette issue 12/06/41
- Coronation Medal 1937: Mrs Middleton, official award cert fm Viceregal Lodge, Simla, 12/05/37

The specific recommendation for Meta Middleton's KIH award is quoted below:

Quote,

Mrs. Meta Middleton.

You have for man years been closely identified with child welfare work and have rendered many valuable services to the movement. You took a leading part in setting the Ranchi Children's Welfare Centre on a sound working basis. In Bhagalpur you were equally prominent both in welfare work and in your efforts to effect improvements in the women's hospital. Your help has always been of a very practical and business-like kind, and in everything you have undertaken you have worked indefatigably.

By the Gracious Command of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, I present you with the Silver Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for public Service in India.

Unquote.

Meta May Maude Briscoe, Mrs. Middleton, née Birch, the daughter of J. B. Birch, a District Superintendent of Police in India, married Arthur Purling Middleton, at Hopetown, near Darjeeling, on 12 October 1910. Her husband - like his father before him - had been educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and having briefly held a commission in the 1st Buckinghamshire Volunteer Battalion, was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1909. He spent most of his career successively as a Magistrate, Collector, and then Commissioner in Bihar and Orissa, and retired in 1945. Emigrating first to Kenya, and then to South Africa, he died in Pietermaritzburg in 1966, and his wife died there in 1973

The Middelton's younger son, Lieutenant Bernard Hastings Middleton, 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, was 'Killed-in-Action' on 27 August 1943, in Sicily, during the Italy Campaign

See item codes, 25994, 25986 & 25920 for the recipients full-sized medals, and the full size and companion miniature medals of the recipients husband

The miniature medals mounted individually and as-worn by the recipient. white metal mounting bar retaining its long hinged pin and clasp fittings 

Important: The item being sold is the 2 x miniature medals only - the images of the recipients & her husbands full-size medals / award ephemera are only here illustrated for reference / provenance purposes. We will however forward the buyer soft-copy images of all the images by email attachment for their records

Condition: Toned EF

Code: 25921