Volunteer Force Long Service Medal (India & Colonies. GV issue (Serjeant C. M. Mackay-Jameson. A.V. Lt. Horse)

Medal Verification: The award of the medal to Sergeant Charles Mowbray Mackay Jameson, Assam Valley Light Horse, was published in India Army Order No 485 of 1914 (Ref  'The Auxiliary Force India and its predecessors' (Alan Harfield, 2015)

An estimated 79 x VLSM's GV issue were issued - 1910-1917 inc - named to the unit, as 'Assam Vally Light Horse' (and pre-dating all later awards made when the descendent unit was as a member unit of the Indian Defence Force and then Auxiliary Force India)

Charles Mowbray Mackay Jameson, son of James Jameson (a Solicitor and Sherrifs Clerk) & Elizabeth Jameson (nee Wilson) was a native of Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland, where he was born on, born on 24 May 1876. By profession an Engineer, Charles lived and worked in Assam, India, where he was a well established 'Tea Planter'. In his leisure time, other then being a long standing member of the Assam Valley Light Horse, he was also a keen 'Freemason' being a member variously of the following lodges of the United Grand Lodge of England: Doom Dooma Lodge, Assam; The Lodge Unity, Nazira, Assam; Lodge Light in Assam, Johrat, Assam, and The Star of Assam Londge, located at Dibrugarh, Assam, India. On 20 December 1920, at Calcutta, India, Charles married Wilhelmine Marie Elizabeth Vandenplas. Ay the time of the wedding both the bride and groom had been resident at 'Spencers Hotel' - which still thrives in 2025. In retirement, Charles and his wife returned to live in the United Kingdom, where the couple lived in London, and where he became a prize-winning yachtsman.

Reference, the below following obituary was published in 'The Northern Scot and Moray & Nairn Express' issue of Nairn the issue of 2 February 1935

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DEATH OF NOTED YACHSTSMAN

Brother of County Clerk of Elgin and Nairn

His Many friends in the North of Scotland will learn with regret of the death, which occurred in a London hospital on Thursday morning of Mr Charles M. M. Jameson, a son of the late, Mr. James Jameson solicitor and sheriff clerk of the county of Moray, and a brother of Mr. E. D. Jameson, solicitor, Elgin, county clerk of Elgin and Nairn.

Mr Jameson, who was 59 years of age, received his early education at Elgin Academy, and thereafter proceeded to Glasgow as an apprentice engineer with the Clyde Navigation Trustees, with whom he served for a number of years.

Later he was with several engineering firms on the Clyde, and for some time was an engineer in the G.S.N.R. Company's works at Kittybrewster. 

He then received an appointment on a tea estate in India, where he remained for a considerable period, holding a number of responsible positions as manager of several of the best known tea estates in Upper Assam. On his retirement some five or six years ago he devoted a great deal of his time to his favourite hobby of yachting.  He had one or two boats, an sailed regularly during the Cowes week, and last year secured several cups with his yacht, Sunfinder II. 

It was for a number of years his custom to winter in the Riviera, but latterly he held an appointment on the Thames as resident secretary and manager of a yacht club.

He had not been in good health for some time, but visited Elgin at Christmas. He contemplated at that time going into a London Hospital for treatment for a stomach trouble.

Mr Jameson is survived by his wife.

The funeral will take place to Elgin Cemetery to-day

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Condtion: About EF

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