WWI British War Medal & Delhi Durbar Group Capt. H. L. Owens CBE

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WWI British War Medal Delhi Durbar Group
British War Medal correctly impressed to CAPT. H. L. OVANS. Delhi Durbar Medal is unnamed as issued. OVANS is also entitled to a Mons Star with bar and rosette, Victory Medal and is a Commander of the British Empire.
Hugh Lambert Ovans
Ovans was born Mortlake, Surrey, England on March 12, 1881, to Father John Lambert Ovans (1837-1883) and Lina Mary Phipps Horby (1846-1909). Ovan’s father was a Solicitor and his mother a homemaker. Ovan’s grew up in a very affluent family with each Census showing several servants as well as 7 siblings (4 girls and 3 boys). Ovans studied at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford to 1899.
Ovans was commissioned as a 2ndLieutenant to the Northumberland Fusiliers on December 4, 1901. He was present at the Durbar in 1911 and is entitled to the Delhi Durbar Medal. Ovans arrived in France on August 13, 1914 with the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers and was listed as Wounded in Action on September 4, 1914. As of September 16, 1914, Ovans received a special appointment to staff Captain. In May 1916 Ovans was promoted to temporary Major and assigned to Northern Command. In in May of 1917, he was transferred to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at the War Office. In September 1917, he was transferred to the Ministry of National Service and later Ministry of Labor to head the “Release from Colours” Branch for which work he would later be awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE). In May of 1919 he was transferred to the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General’s office of the Southern Command. He would later go on to be Director of Military Prisons in India from 1929 until his retirement in 1933.
Ovans was married in Calcutta, Bengal, India on November 11, 1907, to Marjorie Cecil Brett who was born in Calcutta, India as her father served as the Head British Judge of the Calcutta High Court (Sir Cecil Michael Wilford Brett). Ovans passed away on April 26, 1946, in Bath, Somerset, England. He had no children and was survived by his widow. It is worth noting that research is available tracing Ovan’s bloodline back to the Plantagenet Dynasty in England. No further research has been undertaken.
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