Auction Catalogue

2 July 2003

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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

Lot

№ 292

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£430

Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1742 Sepoy Nikka Singh, 47th Sikhs) lacking top suspension brooch, nearly very fine £250-300

I.D.S.M. G.G.O. 1386 of 1916 (Mesopotamia). Also awarded Serbian Gold Medal G.G.O. 534 of 1917, and was killed in action on 5 November 1917. He is commemorated by name on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.