India General Service Medal 1854-95. Silver issue with 4 x clasps 'Burma 1885-7', 'Burma 1887-89', 'Chin-Lushai 1889-90' & 'Burma 1889-92' (1152 Sapper Venkatasamy, 6 Co. “Q.O.” Sappers & Miners)

Provenance: This lot was sold as part of 'The Richard Magor Collection of Medals Relating to India and Africa', Dix Noonan Webb Ltd, July 1993

The recipient was by ethnicity and faith a South Indian of the Hindu faith who was serving as a Sapper with 6th Company Queen's Own Sappers & Miners, of the Madras Army

Reference: The regiment is confirmed as having qualified for all 4 x clasps, having served extensively in Burma and on the North East Frontier of India (reference 'A Dangerous Game: British Colonial Warfare on the Indian Sub-Continent 1854-1892' (Parritt & Waibel, London 2010 )

The highly distinguished Queen's Own Madras Sappers & Miners, were centred at Bangalore Cantonment, where the descendent unit to this day - the Madras Engineer Group - mainstain's it's regimental centre, that includes a Regimental Museum with a rich collection of medals, which is generally regarded as one of the finest, if not the finest, regimental collection in India

A scarce and highly desirable multi-clasp IGS 1854 medal, of the finest provenance, to one of the most distinguished corps of the Indian Army

Condition: VF

Code: 22866