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A fine C.I.E and U.S.A. Military Order of the Dragon group of nine awarded to Brigadier-General H. R. Stockley, Royal Engineers, who was Assistant Military Secretary to the King during the Delhi Durbar and their Majesties tour of India in 1911-12 The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 2nd type breast badge, gold and enamel; India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Hazara 1891, Waziristan 1894-5 (Ltt. H. R. Stockley R.E.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Lieut. H. R. Stockley R.E. Bl. S. & M.); China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Captn. H. R. Stockley Bl. Sappers & Miners); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Brig. Gen. H. R. Stockley.); Delhi Durbar 1903, silver, unnamed as issued; Delhi Durbar 1911, silver, unnamed as issued; United States of America, Military Order of the Dragon (Capt. Hugh R. Stockley Royal Engineers No. 199) complete with integral Pagoda top suspension brooch and original but fragmentary ribbon, the seven official campaign medals mounted as worn, light contact marks to the earlier campaign medals, otherwise very fine and better (9) £2,800-£3,200 Footnote Hugh Roderick Stockley was the son of the late Colonel H. W. Stockley of the Royal Artillery, and was born on 23 March 1868. Educated at Wellington College, where he was in the Cricket XI, he passed direct into Woolwich in the summer of 1885. There he won the Military Topography Prize and received a commission in the Royal Engineers in July 1887. After completing his course at the School of Military Engineering, Stockley proceeded to India in the autumn of 1889, and was soon posted to the Bengal Sappers and Miners, with whom he spent much of his service for a number of years. During the earlier part of this period, the North West Frontier was in a greatly disturbed condition, and expeditions to bring recalcitrant tribes to book were of frequent occurrence; while no expedition set forth without one or more companies of the Bengal Sappers to overcome the difficulties of terrain certain to be met. Hence, Stockley was initiated into the methods of mountain warfare early in his career, serving with the Bengal Sappers and Miners in the Hazara Expedition of 1891, for which he received the medal and clasp. The next year he took part in the Isazai Expedition; while two years later he accompanied the 5th Company on the Waziristan Expedition of 1894-95, for which he received another clasp to his Indian Frontier medal. It was not long before Stockley again found himself on active service in command of the 4th Company, as the whole of the N.W. Frontier broke out into a blaze in 1897. The ensuing operations entailed much stiff fighting before order was restored in those turbulent regions, and the 4th Company were in the thick of it, as evidenced by the fact that two of Stockley's subalterns, T. C. Watson and J. M. Colvin, gained the V.C. For his share in the operations about the Malakand Pass, in Bajaur, and in the Mohmand country, Stockley was mentioned in despatches in the London Gazette of 18 March 1898, and again after the capture of the Tanga Pass in the London Gazette of 22 April 1898. He also received the new Indian Frontier medal with clasp. In July of the same year he was promoted to Captain. At the close of operations, Stockley came home and attended a ‘refresher’ course at the S.M.E. in May 1898, during which time he played for the R.E. Cricket XI, and returned to India a few months later. Not long afterwards, the Boxer rebellion broke out in China and Stockley accompanied the Expeditionary Force sent from India in August 1900. His varied services in that country for nearly a year again received a mention in the London Gazette of I4 May 1901 and the award of the China medal and clasp. Whilst home on leave during 1902, besides playing cricket, he spent much of the summer in London working for the Staff College, Camberley; and though he passed the examination with success he was