India General Service Medal 1908-35. GV second issue with 2 x clasps 'North West Frontier 1930-31' & 'Mohmand 1933' (TB 44736 L-Nk. Abdullah Khan, 21 D.T.T. Coy.)

The upper clasp attached by a customary rod

By ethnicity and faith Abdullah Khan was a Punjabi Mussalman soldier who held the non-commissioned-officer rank of Lance-Naik (Lance-Corporal), while serving with the 21st Divisional Troops Transport Company of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps

The prefix TB before the regimental number indicates that the soldier was se...  read more

Code: 24909

India General Service Medal 1908-35. GV i2nd issue with 3 x clasps 'North West Frontier 1930-31', 'Mohmand 1933' & 'North West Frontier 1935' (8831 Sep. Kartar Singh, 5-12 F.F.R.

The 2 x upper clasps on the IGS 1908 attached by rivets

The recipient was an Indian soldier of the Sikh faith serving as a Sepoy (Private) with the 5th Bn (QVO Corps of Guides) 12th Frontier Force Regiment, an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army

The most famous - and most distinguished - unit of the British Indian Army was the Corps of Guides (1st Battalio...  read more

Code: 24907

General Service 1918. GV First issue with clasp 'Kurdistan' (28 Hvldr. Kapur Singh. 1-11-Sikh R.)

The recipient was an Indian soldier of the Sikh faith, who was a non-commissioned-officer, holding the rank of 'Havildar' (Sergeant) while serving with the 1st Battalion (King George's Own) (Ferozepore Sikhs) 11th Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army

Medal & Clasp Verification: Havildar Kapur Singh is confirmed entitled to the medal and clasp for his deployment and qualifying...  read more

Code: 24905

General Service Medal 1919-62. GV first issue with clasp 'N.W. Persia' (7250682 A. Cpl. P. Cullen R.A.M.C.)

The recipient Patrick Cullen, latterly held the rank of Acting Corporal while serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps

Medal(s) & Clasp Verification: Patrick Cullen is confirmed entitled to the GSM with clasp, together with three earlier campaign medals for the Great War, per the recipients Medal Index Card (that shows all medals and regimental / army numbers) and below followin...  read more

Code: 24903

General Service Medal 1918-62. GV first issue with 2 x clasps 'Kurdistan' & 'Iraq' (2887 Spr. Chanan Singh. Bengal S. & M.)

The recipient Chanan Singh was an Indian soldier of the Sikh faith who held the rank of Sapper while serving with the King George's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, an Engineers unit of the British Indian Army

Medal & Clasps Verification: The medal and both clasps verified as entitled per below referenced medal roll, the medal confirmed as having been issued and received by the rec...  read more

Code: 24902

India General Service Medal 1936-39. With clasp 'North West Frontier 1936-37' (525 Sepoy Feroze Khan, 1 Rd. Constn, Bn)

The recipient was a Pathan holding the rank of Sepoy (Private) while serving with the 1st Road Construction Battalion

The Road Construction Battalions - of which there were 4 x battalions (1st 2nd, 4th & 5th) - were specially locally enlisted personnel, employed by the Government of the North West Frontier Province for exclusive service within the Tribal Territory 'Border Lands' ...  read more

Code: 24901

India General Service 1936-39, With 2 x clasps 'North West Frontier 1936-37' & 'North West Frontier 1937-39' (8996 Sepoy Tawiz Gul, S.W. Scouts.)

The upper clasp attached by rivets

The recipient Tawiz Gul, by ethnicity a Pathan, held the rank of 'Sepoy' (Private) while serving with the South Waziristan Scouts, a 'Frontier Corps' based and deployed in the Southern Waziristan tribal area of the North West Frontier of British India

Formerly known as the North Waziristan Militia (established in 1900), the South ...  read more

Code: 24899

General Service Medal 1918-1962. GVI 1st issue with clasp 'Palestine' (3245762. Rfmn. J. McCormick. Cameronians.)

Medal with unique army number naming 'typo' - should be 3244762 - and exactly as officially impressed. There is only one - unique - 'McCormick' surname in the 2nd Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 'Palestine' medal roll

Wounded-in-Action: Rifleman James McCormick 9th Battalion Cameronians confirmed 'Wounded-in-Action' North West Europe on 11 July 1944 (Ref WO 417/79 British...  read more

Code: 24898

British India: Overseas Service Badge 1939-45

An official service award that was worn on the left breast of the tunic (above medal ribands) - for service in campaign theatres during the Second World War - and in addition to medal ribbons and or medals

See attached image from the regimental history of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles, showing 4 x Gurkhas decorated for North Africa (note the 2 x VCO's wearing 4th Indian Division 'Kite Ha...  read more

Code: 24964

General Service Medal 1918-1962. GVI first issue with clasp 'S.E. Asia 1945-46'

Un-named as issued

The clasp awarded for post-war operations in French Indochina (now Vietnam) and Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)

Un-named medals were awarded to former Indian Army personnel who had transferred their service to the Pakistan Army, and or took their discharge and returned to their ancestral lands in the territories that became Pakistan on 15...  read more

Code: 24895