Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin Hills 1892-93, bronze (25 Bhisti Saiyia Ahmad, 21st Madras Pioneers), official corrections to naming, good very fine and scarce £400-500

The 21st Madras Pioneers were extensively deployed across several Columns during the Chin Hills 1892-93 operations; see A Dangerous Game: British Colonial Warfare on the Indian Sub-Continent 1854-1892, by Parritt & Waibel (Vol. IV, 2010).