A rare officially named Sikh 'Coke's Rifles' Campaign Medal Group of 3 to a Far East Prisoner of War for the Malaya Campaign 1941-42: Sepoy Bakhshish Singh, 1st Battalion (Coke's) 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army

- The 1939-45 Star (19797 Sep. Bakhshish Singh, F. F. Rif.)
- The Pacific Star (19797 Sep. Bakhshish Singh, F. F. Rif.)
- War Medal (19797 Sep. Bakhshish Singh, F. F. Rif.)

The medals - all Calcutta Mint - issues are officially impressed, per the naming conventions adopted in India post-independence

The recipients regimental number indicates a soldier recruited into the Indian Army sometime after December 1939, and a subsequent casualty of the Malaya Campaign 1941-42, where he would have become a Far East Prisoner of War. While many thousands of captured Indian Army personnel subsequently joined the puppet Indian National Army, Sepoy Bakhshish Singh was not one of them, and remained 'loyal to his salt' (WW2 British campaign medals were not issued post-war to Indians who had served in the puppet INA)

Only one battalion of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles served in the Malaya Campaign 1941-42, vis 1st Battalion (Coke's) 13th Frontier Force Rifles. The decimated battalion surrendered at the fall of Singapore Colony to the Imperial Japanese Army on 15 February 1942 

The medals are professionally swing-mounted, with the medal mounting bar retaining the original long hinged pin and clasp fittings for wear

Rare seen

Condition: About EF

Code: 25976