Auction Catalogue

16 December 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

№ 925

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16 December 2003

Hammer Price:
£720

A North-West Frontier 1897-98 operations I.O.M. pair awarded to Havildar Badan Singh, 36th Sikhs

Indian Order of Merit
, Military Division, 1st type (1837-1912), 3rd class ‘Reward of Valour’ badge, silver and enamel, the reverse inscribed, ‘No. 1369 Sepoy Badan Singh, 36th Sikhs’; Delhi Durbar 1911 (1369 Hauldar Badn. Singh, 36 Sikhs), impressed naming, the first with severely chipped enamel work and lacking riband buckle, the second with repaired suspension loop (fixed), fine or better (2) £250-350

I.O.M. General Order of the Government of India No. 133 4 February 1898: ‘For conspicuous gallantry at Fort Cavagnari on 13 September 1897, on which occasion [he and others] took part in a daring sortie. The party, with the assistance of a reinforcement under Havildar Sundar Singh, drove the enemy from their sangars at the point of the bayonet, and captured three of their standards.’

A photograph of the gallant survivors of this sortie, standing proudly with their three captured enemy standards, may be found in Michael Barthorp’s
The Frontier Ablaze, The North-West Frontier Rising 1897-98.