Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Waziristan 1901-2, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Malakand 1897 (1577 Sepoy Sham Singh 35th Sikhs) clasps mounted in order listed, very fine £150-200

The 35th Sikhs were accompanied in the Malakand operations by Winston Churchill, then a cavalry lieutenant and war correspondent. He left a colourful and detailed account in The Story of the Malakand Field Force. My Early Life. Sold with additional research including a coloured print of the 35th Sikhs in action near Shahi Tangi on 16 September 1897.