Lot 512A
THE UNIFORMS OF EDWARD SELWYN HOERNLE.
Comprising a khaki four-pocket jacket with Indian Army buttons, A blue jacket with C.N. Regt buttons and ribbons for War and Victory medals and a long service award, with Chota Nagpur Regiment collar badges and buttons, a tail coat with velvet collar and cuffs with a label for Harnack and Co, Calcutta inscribed for E S Hoernle. with trousers with twin white stripe and white waistcoat.
Provenance: The family of the original owner.
See the following two lots for further items from this family.
Edward Selwyn Hoernle (6/9/86 - 16/8/36) was born in Persia, his mother dying in child birth he was raised by his aunt, Educated at Winchester School and New College Oxford. He is recorded as a Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer battalion of the Royal Hampshire Regiment with a seniority date of 28th July 1906. He took the civil service exams (Oct 19 1910) and entered the Indian Civil Service arriving in India on the 30th of November 1910. He moved to the Bihar and Orissa district in 1912 as acting under secretary to the government. Marrying Mabel Eden in 1913 the marriage to be later annulled. During the First World War he served from June 1917 as a Second Lieutenant (temporary Captain) 13/6/17 to January 1919 with the 2/90th Punjabis. From the 20th May 1920 he is recorded as a Lieutenant in the Chota Nagpur regiment. From 1924 he became the Department Commissioner for the Bihar and Orissa Region. He died of stomach cancer during a return journey to Great Britain on the 16th of August 1936, he was buried at sea and has a memorial in Gussage All Saints Churchyard.
