1914 Star (No. 1868 Sepoy Jaimal Singh, 58/Rfls.) traces of verdigris, nearly very fine £60-£80

Jaimal Singh, a native of Jhangpur, Jagraon, Ludhiana, Punjab, served with the 58th Vaughan’s Rifles during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action/ died of wounds on 13 November 1914. The Battalion War Diary for this day states:
‘On the night of the 13th November, the gap was rushed by a party of 50 men. A party of the same strength was sent from the reserve... and got into the gap, from which the few occupants fled... A bomb was then thrown into the trench and the party retired under a heavy rifle fire. This fire, however, was very wild and high, our casualties being 1 man killed and 3 wounded (1 man wounded since died).’

Jaimal Singh has no known grave and is commemorated on the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial, France.