Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Driver Nur Bakhsh, No. 6 Bombay Mountain Battery
India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Burma 1889-92, Lushai 1889-92 (530 Driver, No. 6 Bo. Mn. By.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (530 K. Driver, No. 6 Bo. Mtn. By.) contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine (2)

Eleven Indian Orders of Merit were awarded to members of No. 6 Bombay Mountain Battery for gallantry during the attack on the Political Officer’s Escort at Maizar, on the 10th June 1897. Captain J. F. Browne, R.A., and Lieutenant H. A. Cruickshank, R.A., were both killed, as was Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Bunny of the 1st Sikh Infantry. At one stage some guns of the battery resorted to firing blank cartridges when the supply of shell was exhausted, making the enemy believe that the guns were still in action.