Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 242

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£180

Pair: Muleteer Sher Dal, No. 1 Kashmir Mountain Battery

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Muleteer, No. 1 Kashmir Mtn. By.); Jummoo and Kashmir Medal 1895, 1 clasp, Chitral 1895, this a copy medal, the first good very fine (2) £60-80

Only the Dogra section of this battery went to the relief of Chitral from Gilgit and, after an epic march, reached Chitral before the British force arrived from the south.