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orders, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria Captain H.M. Carless, having received his C.M.G. at Buckingham Palace, 1976 5 The C.M.G. Group of Five to Captain H.M. Carless, Intelligence Corps, Later Diplomatic Service, Whose Tenure as Chargé d’Affairs to Argentina and Ambassador to Venezuela coincided with the Lead Up and Aftermath of the Falklands War- He Previously Achieved Literary Fame as Eric Newby’s Travel Companion in ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ a) The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion’s (C.M.G.) neck Badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in Spink, London, case of issue b) France and Germany Star c) Defence and War Medals d) Brazil, Republic, Order of the Southern Cross, Commander’s neck Badge, 89mm including wreath suspension x 64mm, gilt and enamel, with neck riband, in H. Stern case, nearly extremely fine, with the following related items: - The recipient’s related miniature awards - Bestowal Document for the Order of the Southern Cross, named to Senor Hugh Carless, and dated 24.5.1976 - Central Chancery letter for the C.M.G., dated 12.6.1976 - Two photographs of the recipient, one outside Buckingham Palace having just received his C.M.G. - The recipient’s silver letter opener (5) £500-700 C.M.G. London Gazette 12.6.1976 Hugh Michael Carless, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Captain Hugh Michael Carless, C.M.G., born Nainital, India, 22.4.1925, the son of Henry Alfred Carless, C.I.E., Indian Police; educated at Sherborne; the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where he spent a year learning Persian; and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Intelligence Corps, 8.1.1944 and served during the Second World War with the 12th Indian Division in Tehran, as part of the Persia and Iraq Force (Paiforce), and in North West Europe with the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Promoted Lieutenant, 8.7.1944, and Captain, 1.1.1949, Carless entered the Foreign Service in 1950, and the following year was posted as Third Secretary to Kabul. While in Afghanistan he and an American colleague travelled to the Panjshir Valley to make a reconnaissance of Mir Samir, an unclimbed glacial peak of 20,000 feet. In 1953 he was posted as Second Secretary to Rio de Janeiro, and whilst there he represented Brazil in a cricket match against Argentina. WWW.spiNK.Com
‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ In the spring of 1956 Carless was finishing his posting in Rio de Janeiro, before being transferred to Tehran, when he received a cable from his good friend Eric Newby: ‘Can you travel to Nuristan, June?’ He immediately sent back the reply: ‘Of course’, and arriving back in London the two men got together. After a week-end’s mountain climbing in Wales, the two men set off for Afghanistan, where they planned to climb Mir Samir, the still-unclimbed mountain that Carless had recced four years previously. The tale of their adventure was described in Newby’s classic account, ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’, which he dedicated to his travelling companion ‘To Hugh Carless of Her Majesty’s Foreign Service, without whose determination, it must be obvious to anyone who reads it, this journey could never have been made.’ Later described as ‘the book that virtually invented modern travel writing’, the work was notable for its hilarious account of the disasters that befell the inexperienced pair as they floundered and bumbled their way across Afghanistan. After several tries, they eventually managed to come within 700 feet of the summit of Mir Samir, only to realise that they would have to spend the night at the top and they had not brought their sleeping bags with them. ‘I’m afraid we wouldn’t last out’, Newby recalled Carless saying, before adding: ‘We can try if you like.’ As they made their final descent, Newby recorded: ‘The fact that we were roped together and had one another’s lives in our hands, produced in me a feeling of great affection for Hugh, this tiresome character who had led me to such a spot.’ The expedition famously ended with a chance encounter on the banks of the Upper Panjshir river between the distinctly amateurish pair and the very professional explorer Wilfred Thesiger. At the end of a long evening swapping anecdotes, the three men prepared to turn in for the night. Watching as they blew up their airbeds to sleep on the hillside, Thesiger dryly remarked: ‘God, you must be a couple of pansies’, giving Newby’s book its ending, and Carless his share of literary fame. Carless resumed his diplomatic career as Oriental Secretary in Tehran, a period that coincided with the Suez crisis, before returning to London for a long spell at the Foreign Office, two years of which were spent as private secretary to Lord Dundee, Minister of State at the Foreign Office under Harold Macmillan. Following postings to Budapest, Luanda, and Bonn, Carless was appointed head of the Latin America Department at the Foreign Office in 1973. In May 1976 President Geisel of Brazil was invited on a The intrepid explorers: Carless (top) and Eric Newby controversial state visit to Britain, which went ahead despite fierce opposition from the Labour back-benches opposed to the country’s military dictatorship. On the eve of the visit, the Prime Minister, James Callaghan, said to Carless: ‘Hugh, if we don’t get one large contract out of the Brazilians you had better look for another job.’ Carless accompanied President Geisel to Buckingham Palace and acted as interpreter. The visit resulted in British investment in an offshore oil development, the contract worth £300 million- and for his involvement Carless was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (ahead of his seniority) and awarded the Brazilian Order of the Southern Cross. Offered the job of Ambassador to Peru in 1977, Carless instead opted to go to Buenos Aires as chargé d’affaires, the Argentine government having dismissed the previous British ambassador. For the next three years he was involved in talks about the status of the Falkland Islands. In 1982, after the end of the Falklands War, he was appointed Ambassador to Venezuela. The Venezuelans had been keen supporters of Argentina during the War, and anti-British sentiment was high, leading to the cancellation of a number of lucrative contracts and initiatives. For the next three years Carless pursued a ‘cultural diplomacy’, which ‘restored great warmth to our relations.’ Hugh Carless retired from the Diplomatic Service in 1985, and in retirement served as vice-chairman of the South Atlantic Council and chairman of the British Committee, Argentine-British Conferences, as ‘an endeavour to re-establish constructive relations after the war.’ He died in London, 20.12.2011. 9
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