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Order of the Indian Empire, order of chivalry
Accession Number

NAM.1989-11-19-1

Description

Order of the Indian Empire, Companion Badge, 1917. From a medal group awarded to Lt Col Sir James Mackenna, Upper Burma Volunteers and Indian Civil Service. Gold and enamel badge with suspension ring and dark blue riband. The badge is formed of a gold relief portrait bust of Queen Victoria in a central roundel within a circlet of blue enamel with the inscription, ‘Imperatricis Auspiciis’ (Under the auspices of the Empress), in gold lettering; on a rose enamelled in red and green, surmounted by a crown. Sir James MacKenna CIE (15 August 1872 – 3 April 1940) was a Scottish-Indian civil servant who served as a director of agriculture in India and headed various committees that promoted scientific agriculture in India. He received a Delhi Durbar Medal in 1911 and was a member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India 1926-27. He was made CIE in 1917 and knighted in 1925.