Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, North West Frontier (941. Pte. G. H. Green, 1/7 Foot.) with top silver riband bar, minor edge bruising, polished, good very fine and rare to unit £600-£800

G. H. Green attested for the 7th Foot, and was one of only five men (Ensign William Roberts, Sergeant J. Coulter, and three Privates) from the 1st Battalion awarded the India General Service Medal with clasp ‘North West Frontier’, for the expedition under Brevet Colonel A. F. Macdonell against Sultan Muhammed Khan, 5 December 1863 to 2 January 1864; most of the rest of the 1st Battalion qualified for the concurrent Umbeyla clasp.

Sold with copied medal roll extract.