Miniature Medals

Four: Jemadar Akbar Ali, No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery

India General Service 1854-95, 3 clasps, Jowaki 1877-8, Burma 1885-7, Hazara 1888 (3 Jemadar, No. 4 (Hazara) Mn. By. P.F.F.); Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ali Musjid, Kabul (3 Gunner, No. 4 (Hazara) Mn. By. P.F.F.); India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Relief of Chitral 1895 (3 Gunner, No. 4 (Hazara) Mn. By. P.F.F.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued, the second officially re-engraved and the first three probably all later official replacements, good very fine (4) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Artillery Units formed by Lt-Col. A.M. Macfarlane.

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Akbar Ali enlisted in No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery, Punjab Field Force, in March 1869, and rose to be Subadar-Major of the four P.F.F. batteries. On retirement in November 1903, he was appointed Honorary Captain and awarded the Order of British India, 1st Class.

IGS 1895 is named to recipient as Jemadar, not Gunner