India General Service 1908-35. GV silver issue with clasp 'North West Frontier 1930-31' (1072920 Boy D. H. Rose. R.A.)

Medal(s) and clasps verification: The medal with clasp, is confirmed per the respective campaign medal roll. In addition the recipient was also subsequently awarded the General Service Medal with clasp 'Palestine' while serving as a British Constable with the Palestine Police Force. The respective campaign medal roll references are cited below:

- IGS Medal 1908 & clasp: WO 100/494 compiled & signed at Nowshera Cantonment, N.F.W.P., 17/01/1934. With remark discharged 8/4/31, medal issued June 1934. Served 12th Field Battery R.A.
- GSM 1918-62 'Palestine': Medal roll of Palestine Police ref WO 100/510, shown as No 1233 with rank 'Constable'. With remark medal issued 12 January 1948

Photograph: A fine portrait photograph of the recipient is accessible on the Ancestry genealogical website

A scarce seen campaign medal named to a 'Boy' soldier, who was only 17 years at the time he earned his medal on the North West Frontier of India

A most interesting recipient:

- Boy Soldier, on active service aged 17, serving with Royal Artillery of the British Army on North West Frontier of India, 1930
- British Constable (later Sergeant), Palestine Police, serving in Palestine 1936 -
- Petroleum Refiner, Bahrain Island, (a British Protectorate), Arabian Gulf 1943-1944

Photograph: A particularly fine portrait photograph of the recipient is accessible on the Ancestry genealogical website

The recipient was a native of Canterbury, Kent, England, where he was born on, 10 October 1912. While latterly holding the rank of British Sergeant with the Palestine Police, he married in Palestine Mandate on,

A scarce seen British campaign medal named to a Boy soldier, and later Palestine and Bahrain resident

Condition: GVF

Code: 23921