India General Service Medal 1854-1895, 1 Clasp: Burma 1887-89, named in running script to Inspector F.H.B. Wither, Pyinmana Civil Police who saw service during the clear up operations in the aftermath of the Third Burma War during 1887 to 1889.

India General Service Medal 1854-1895, 1 Clasp: Burma 1887-89, named in running script to Inspector F.H.B. Wither, Pyinmana Civil Police who saw service during the clear up operations in the aftermath of the Third Burma War during 1887 to 1889.

India General Service Medal 1854-1895, 1 Clasp: Burma 1887-89; named in running script (Inspector F.H.B. Wither, Pyinmana Civil Police)

Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine

Frank Herbert Bigg-Wither attended Merchant Taylors School and would see service as an Inspector in the Pyinmana Civil Police during the clear up operations in the aftermath of the Third Burma War during 1887 to 1889. He would later marry Ethel Cooke at Simla on 13th June 1898 at Christchurch, Simla.

Ethel Cooke was the eldest daughter of the late Charles Richard Cooke, the late Inspector of Schools, Punjab.

Frank Herbert Bigg-Wither died at Newton Abbot in 1942. His daughter Mary Orde Tippet later recalling how her father who had spent lengthy periods in India and Burma, described India as as ‘a savage country’ and told that on arriving in Burma in the early twentieth century he had been savagely attacked by dacoits (robbers with violence), wild tribes and left for dead.’