Civilian Service Medal Afghanistan (2001-2021)

A Royal Mint issue medal that has been had the original naming removed (machine skimmed)

The medal - now obsolete following 'Operation Pitting' which marked the British evacuation from Afghanistan, completed on 28 August 2021 - was instituted in 2011, retroactive to 2001

Basic award criteria is either 30 days continuous service in theatre Afghanistan, or aggregated...  read more

Code: 24879

1914-15 Star (S-7463 Pte. W. Hook. R. Highrs.)

Killed-in-Action: Private William Hook 1st Battalion Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) is confirmed Killed-in-Action in France on, 3 September 1918

William's body was recovered from the battlefield, and he now lies buried at the Dury Crucifix Cemetery, France, where his life and supreme self sacrifice is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His memo...  read more

Code: 24742

1914-15 Star (No. 10 Mochi Isher Dass, 23/P. Mtn. Batty. F.F.)

The recipient was an attested public follower on the muster roll of 23rd Pack Mountain Battery

Mochi: In the Indian Army, the trade of 'Mochi' refers to a person who is a shoemaker or leatherworker, essentially a cobbler, as "Mochi" is a Hindi term for a traditional shoemaker caste in India; it's used as a term to describe the military personnel responsible for repairing and main...  read more

Code: 24737

1914-15 Star (1148 Tptr. Kaim Khan. 25 Mtn. Bty.)

By faith and ethnicity this Indian soldier was a Punjabi Mussalman who held the appointment of 'Trumpeter', while serving with the 25th Mountain Battery of the British Indian Army

This unit was the 25th Quetta Mountain Battery

Condition: VF  read more

Code: 24735

1914-15 Star (No. 804 Gnr.L.Nk. Bhajan Singh, 30/Mtn. By.)

This unit was the 30th (Abbottabad) Mountain Battery

Condition: VF  read more

Code: 24727

India General Service Medal 1908-35. GV 1st issue with clasp 'Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919' (338. Gnr.-Nk. Yusaf Khan, 2 K.M. Bty.)

Recipient was a Naik (Corporal) serving with the 2nd Kashmir Mountain Battery, an artillery unit of the of the Jammu & Kashmir Indian Princely States Forces

Scarce seen medal on the market named to 2nd Kashmir Mountain Battery

Condition: Toned GVF  read more

Code: 24719

1914-15 Star (228. Ft. Sjt. A. Baird, R.F.A.)

The recipient held the specialist appointment of Fitter Staff-Sergeant, 37th (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery, when he took his final discharge from the British Army due to 'Sickness' on, 8 March 1919

Medal verification: Fitter Staff-Sergeant's Archibald Baird's entitlement to the 1914-15 Star, together with companion British War Medal & Interallied Victory Medal's and a ...  read more

Code: 24516

1914-15 Star (1761 Pte. P. Dickson, Loth & Bord. H.)

The medal retaining & fitted with its original long length of, now stitched, silk 'moire' riband

Wounded-in-Action: Private Peter Dickson, Lothian & Border Horse, is confirmed being 'Wounded-in-Action' in France, in 1918, when he received a 'Gunshot & Shrapnel Wound' (or, GSW) to his right eyebrow, subsequently sent for recuperation to the King George Hospital, Stamford Street, S...  read more

Code: 24514

Silver War Badge. Numbered ‘467690’ (positively attributed to No A/1059 Driver James Sanderson, Royal Army Service Corps late Army Service Corps)

A S.W.B. to an 'Old Contemptible' who was 'Convicted a Deserter and did 5 Years Penal Servitude' - the recipients 1914 Star Medal Roll entry refers

Medals & Silver War Badge verification: A/1059 Driver James Sanderson, Army Service Corps is confirmed entitled to Silver War Badge, together with a 1914-15 Star trio of Great War medals, per below cited sources:

- 1914...  read more

Code: 24510

India General Service Medal 1908-35. GV 2nd issue with clasp 'Burma 1930-32' (17 Sepoy Lachman, Eastn. Bn. B.M.P.)

The recipient was a Nepalese soldier of Gurkha ethnicity, who held the rank of 'Sepoy' (Private) while serving with the Eastern Battalion, Burma Military Police, in the period circa 1930

The Eastern Battalion of the Burma Military Police, was raised in 1926, and had its Headquarters located at Myitkina, in North Burma (where a sister 'Western Battalion' of the Burma Military Poli...  read more

Code: 24503