A Pakistan Armoured Corps Risaldar-Major's long service & multi-campaign medal group of 8: Risaldar Major Lal Khan, TK. Pakistan Armoured Corps, late Probyn's Horse

- Pakistan, Medal of Service, 2nd Class, silver and enamel
- Pakistan: General Service Medal. With clasp 'Kashmir 1948'
- Pakistan Medal 1947 (11380-10 Ris. Maj. Lal Khan P.A.C.)
- IGS 1936-39. 'NWF 1936-37' & 'NWF 1937-39' (839 S. D. Maj. Lall Khan, Probyn’s Horse);
- The 1939-45 Star;
- The Burma Star
- War Medal 1939-45
- India Service Medal 1939-45

The upper clasp on the IGS 1936, is loose on riband

The recipient by ethnicity and faith was a Punjabi Mussalman, who in 1936 was holding the regimental number 839 and rank of Squadron Daffadar Major (Squadron Sergeant Major) while serving with Probyn's Horse, which was a cavalry regiment of the then British Indian Army. Throughout the Second World War, Lall Khan served with his regiment in British India and on active service in Burma during the Burma Campaign. Indian Army Lists record Lall Khan ending the war with the rank of Subadar. In 1947, at 'partition', Lall Khan remained with his regiment when it transferred to the Pakistan Army. Lall Khan was holding the appointment of Risaldar-Major (the seniormost Junior Commissioned Officer's rank that a JCO could hold). All of the cavalry (armoured) regiments that transferred to Pakistan in 1947, were issued their Pakistan Medals named to the generic Pakistan Armoured Corps, of which all the respective cavalry regiments including Probyn's Horse were now serving. Risaldar-Major Lall Khan appears to have taken his retirement from the Pakistan Army sometime prior to March 1956 (note his mounted medal group does not include a Pakistan Republic Medal). He was however subsequently rewarded for his long and meritorious years of military service, when he was decorated with the 'Tamgha-i-Khidmat (3rd Class) which award was instituted in 1957, and awarded retrospectively to qualifying JCO's who had served in the Pakistan Army from 1947 onwards

Pakistan (Republic) Medal of Military Service (Tamgha-i-Khidmat (Military)). Third Class (T.K.III). 1st type insignia (1957-80): The decoration was instituted in 1957, and awarded in three classes. It is primarily awarded for long, meritorious & distinguished service, and is restricted as an award for Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO's) of the Pakistan Armed Services (and other specified uniformed services, which latter wear different ribands from the military). The decoration was conceived to mirror the former awards of the Order of British India (awarded in two classes), that had stopped being awarded in the wake of independence. The awards are worn from a neck riband. 1st type insignia have with non-enamelled obverse 'Crescent & Moon' centres and are of larger 47mm dimension. Later 2nd type insignia (awarded post 1980) have enamelled 'Crescent & Moon' centres, and are of smaller 41mm dimension

Probyn's Horse 1939-1957: The regiment was based at Risalpur, India, when it became a mechanised unit, substituting their horses for tanks. In 1942, the regiment was equipped with 'American' tanks, comprising one squadron equipped with Stuart tanks, and two other squadrons with Lee tanks. From 1944, Probyn's was a constituent unit of the 225th Indian Tank Brigade, and served on active service 1944-45 in the Burma Campaign, during which they fought armed with M4 Sherman Tanks. At the time of partition the men of the Dogra squadron were exchanged for the Punjabi-Mussalman squadron from the Royal Deccan Horse. The men of the Sikh squadron joined the Sinde Horse, and a Kaimkhani squadron joined Probyn's from the 18th King Edward VII's Own Cavalry. In 1956, after Pakistan became a republic, the regiment's name was restyled as '5 Horse', and the regiment continues to thrive in the Pakistan Army in 2024

The Tamgha-i-Khidmat with a full length neck riband, the other medals mounted in the Pakistan Army order of precedence and as-worn by the recipient. The reverse pad of the mounted medal group retaining it's long hinged pin and clasp fittings, and these 'as-worn' by the recipient

Condition: VF

Code: 24331