Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War Gallipoli I.D.S.M. awarded to Subadar-Major Budhsing Gurung, 1/5th Gurkha Rifles

Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (4159 Havr. Budhsing Gurung, 1/5/Gurkha Rfls.) contact marks, nearly very fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Indian Army the property of a retired Indian Army officer.

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I.D.S.M. G.O. 523 of 1920.

Budhsing Gurung first entered the service on 21 December 1904. He was commissioned as Jemadar on 15 February 1917, becoming Subadar on 20 December 1919, and Subadar-Major of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) on 1 January 1926. He served during the War of 1914-21, in Egypt from 4 December 1914 to 2 June 1915 and 20 December 1915 to 23 February 1916; and in Gallipoli from 3 June to 19 December 1915 (Wounded, I.D.S.M.). He subsequently served in Waziristan 1922-23 (Despatches London Gazette 30 May 1924).