Volunteer Long Service Medal (India & the Colonies). EDVII issue (Voltr. E. J. Vint South Andaman Voltr. Rifles)

The officially engraved naming with few minor corrections - and fairly typical for this particular medal issue

Only 15 Medals of any type ever issued to this small unit

Edmund James Vint was born at Madras on 14 May 1869, the son of Charles Alfred Vint (Clerk, Accountant General's Office, Fort St. George, Madras) and Harriett Vint (nee Mills). Baptised by the Garri...  read more

Code: 25176

Volunteer Long Service Medal (India & The Colonies). GV issue (Pte. C. E. Radcliffe, 1 Bn. E.I. Ry. R. (A.F.I.)

The medal is sold together with the original typed transmittal letter from regimental headquarters at Lilllooah, dated 15 April 1930, forwarding the medal to the recipient - and a scarce seen award document

Medal verification: The medal was awarded to Private Charles Eugene Radcliffe, of the 1st Battalion East Indian Railway Regiment (Auxiliary Force India) on 12 December 1929, a...  read more

Code: 25175

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service medal. GV first issue, with swivel suspender (No. C.Q.M.Sjt. James Jayawardena, Ceylon L.I.)

The recipient James Jayawardena was a Ceylonese volunteer holding the rank of Company Quarter Master Sergeant while serving with the Ceylon Light Infantry

Medal Verification: Reference 'The Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal' (J.M.A. Tamplin,1984), the award is shown as awarded to C.Q.M.S. S.K.J. Jayawardena C.L.I. in the Ceylon Government Gazette of 26 November 1926<...  read more

Code: 25174

Efficiency Medal. GV issue with clasp 'India' (Pte. R. Benjamin, Sind. R. A.F.I.)

Medal Verification: The medal was awarded to Private R. Benjamin, of The Sind Rifles (Auxiliary Force India) on 25 September 1933, as published in Indian Army Order No. 554 of 1933

The recipient was almost certainly of the Jewish faith, the Sind Rifles being one of two corps of the Auxiliary Force India (the other were the units of the Bombay Contingent) that mustered sizeable nu...  read more

Code: 25173

Efficiency Medal. GV issue with bar 'India' (Pte. D. C. O. Jansen, B. N. Ry. Bn., A.F.I.)

Medal Verification: Private Dunstan Colin Ogle Jansen of the Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion (Auxiliary Force India) is confirmed entitled per below referenced source:

- EM 'India'. GV issue: Medal was awarded on 28 November 1936, per Indian Army Order No.100 of 1936

Dunstan Colin Ogle Jansen, son of Earnest John Jansen (Inspector with the Bengal Nagpur Railway, lo...  read more

Code: 25172

Efficiency Medal. GV issue with clasp 'India' (Pte. B. M. C. Briggs, 1. E. I. Ry. R., A.F.I.)

Medal & Further Service Bar Verification: The medal was awarded to Private Bertram Malcolm Campbell Briggs, of the 1st Battalion East India Railway Regiment (Auxiliary Force India) on 8 October 1934, as published in Indian Army Order No. 531 of 1934. The recipient is also confirmed as being awarded a 'Further Service' bar to his Efficiency Medal, the further service bar awarded on 16 June 1939 ...  read more

Code: 25171

Efficiency Medal. GVI first issue with clasp 'India' (Pte. J. Mendes, Bombay Contgt., A.F.I.)

Basis the recipient held the rank of Private (and not Trooper, Gunner or Sapper) J. Mendes, would have been a volunteer member of The Bombay Battalion', which was one of the 4 x A.F.I. units that comprised the The Bombay Contingent (Auxiliary Force India). The individual units of The Bombay Contingent, in 1939 were:

- The Bombay Patrol
- No.10 (Bombay) Battery, R.A., A.F.I...  read more

Code: 25170

India Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. GV first type with 'Kaisar-i-Hind' obverse legend (2126. Sowar Man Singh, 14th Murray’s Jat Lcers.)

The recipient Man Singh was a Jat Hindu Indian soldier from the Punjab, who held the rank of Sowar (Trooper) while serving with the 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army

14th Murray's Jat Lancers: The regiment was originally raised in 1857 at Aligarh as an irregular cavalry unit, at which time it was styled as the 'Jat Horse Yeomanry'. The regim...  read more

Code: 25169

India Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. GV first type with Kaisar-i-Hind' obverse legend (10170 L-Daf. Amir Ullah, Khan, 15 Lrs.)

The impressed naming with official corrections, and exactly as issued

The recipient Amir Ullah Khan, was by ethnicity and faith a Punjabi Mussalman soldier holding the rank of Lance-Daffadar (Corporal) while serving with the 15th Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army

The recipients 5 digit regimental number indicates that he had served prior 1922, ...  read more

Code: 25168

India Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. GV second type with 'Indiae Imp' obverse legend (37 Tmtr. Ghulam Mohd. Khan, 19 Lrs.

The recipient Ghulam Mohd Khan, was by ethnicity and faith a Punjabi Mussalman soldier holding the appointment of 'Trumpeter' while serving with the 19th Lancers, a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army

In August 1947, with the partitioning of British India and the creation of the independent states of India and Pakistan, the 19th King George V's Own Lancers was transferred...  read more

Code: 25167