Efficiency Medal GVI 1st issue with 'India' bar (B.Q.M.S. G. Mayers. 10 Bty., A.F.I.)

The recipient was holding holding the senior non-commissioned-officer rank of Battery Quarter Master Sergeant while serving with No 10 (Bombay) Battery an Artillery unit of the Auxiliary Force India

The medal was awarded sometime between 1937-1941

No 10 (Bombay) Battery, RA. AFI: The unit could trace its origins to the raising of the Bombay Volunteer Artillery, that was created in June 1887. Like all other Volunteer units in India, they underwent several name changes in their short history, and it was on 13 April 1933, that the unit was re-styled as No 10 (Bombay) Battery, RA, AFI. With an officer strength of 1 x Major, 2 x Captains & 2 x Subalterns

On 3 September 1939, the enrolled strength of the unit was 110 x active volunteers and and 4 x reservist volunteers. The unit was embodied on 25 May 1940 for support in manning the coastal defences of Bombay

In 1941 the unit underwent a final name change when it was re-styled as Bombay Coast Battery, RA, AFI

As of 31 December 1944, the unit had a strength of 119 x 'All-Ranks', of which the ethnicities comprised; 12 x European; 103 x Eurasian and 3 x Jewish. During the receding 5 years 26 x volunteers had left to serve as commissioned officers in the regular armed forces, and a further 22 x had enlisted as 'Other-Ranks'

The Bombay Coast Battery, together with all other units of the Auxiliary Force India was disbanded on 14 August 1947

A very scarce medal seen named to this Bombay volunteer 'Gunner' unit of the Auxiliary Force India

Condition: About GVF

Code: 24473