Description
Volunteer Forces Long Service & Good Conduct Medal for India and the Colonies, EDVII, Colour Sergeant later Honorary Captain & Quartermaster Richard Batty,1st Bn Calcutta Volunteer Rifles.
Officially engraved in running script: “Colour Sergeant R. Batty 1st Bn Cal Voltr Rifles.”
Honorary Captain Richard Batty, earned this medal during his long service in the ranks as a Colour Sergeant.
He was commissioned on 1st July 1910 as Honorary Lieutenant, and promoted to Honorary Captain on 16th March 1915.
A WW1 period Army List entry notes he was serving on the Staff of the Calcutta Volunteer Rifles as Honorary Captain, whilst also serving as the regiment’s Quartermaster.
For his service in India during World War 1 since 1914, he earned only the British War Medal as Captain with the 1st Calcutta Volunteer Rifles and Indian Defence Force.
Near the end of the war he travelled back to India on the ship Nankin during April 1918, noted as a 60 year old “Head Appraiser, Customs, Calcutta”
Richard was born during 1855. The son of John Batty.
He spent most of his life in India, whilst serving part time with the military, he was also a Head Appraiser for HM Customs in Calcutta.
He married Lina Charlotte De Souza, in Dinapore on 12th March 1886, at which time he worked as a Guard for East Indian Railways.
He lived a long life, and died aged 86 on 17th June 1941 in Calcutta, Lower Circular Road, Bengal.
