Great War Indian Army Officer’s casualty pair awarded to Lieutenant G.J.L. Stovin, Indian Army Reserve of Officers, who saw service with the 37th Dogras in Mesopotamia before dying on 2nd February 1917 and subsequently being buried in Amara War Cemetery. He is also remembered on the Holy Trinity Great War Memorial Window and Tablets in Ramsgate and on the 37th, 38th and 41st Dogras Memorial Plaque at Aldershot.
Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (LIEUT. G.J.L. STOVIN.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
George John Lucas Stovin was born in 1892 and was educated at Rochester Cathedral School, but by the time of the 1911 census had most likely moved to India. He would be noted sailing from Liverpool on 26th October 1912 on a ship’s manifest.
At the outbreak of the war he joined up and was an officer in the Indian Army Reserve and would be appointed to the 37th Dogras, an infantry regiment which would be sent to serve in Mesopotamia, Stovin would have seen service in the advance on Kut. He would go on to die in hospital on 2nd February 1917 and is buried at Amara War Cemetery in Southern Iraq and is noted as the son of the late Captain Lucas Slovin (Royal Navy) and of Maud Stovin of ‘The Moorings’, Lyndhurst Road, Ramsgate.
Stovin is also remembered on the Holy Trinity Great War Memorial Window and Tablets in Ramsgate, Kent and on the 37th, 38th and 41st Dogras Memorial Plaque at Aldershot.
