Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A rare O.B.I., I.D.S.M. group of five awarded to Risaldar-Major (Hon. Lieutenant) Sammundar Shah, Mule Corps and Supply and Transport Corps

Order of British India, 2nd Class neck badge, 18 carat gold and enamel, by Spink, London; Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Risldr. Sammundar Shah, 7 I.B.T. Coy.), officially re-impressed naming in small capitals; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (6431 L./Naik Samundar Shah, 10th Mule Cadre), officially re-engraved naming in running script; British War Medal 1914-18 (6431 K.-D. Samander Shah, 10 M.C.); General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, Kurdistan, Iraq, N.W. Persia (Jemdr. Samunder Shah, S. & T. Corps), the first good very fine or better, the remainder with contact marks and edge bruising, good fine or better (5) £600-800

O.B.I. Gazette of India 27 April 1933.

I.D.S.M. Gazette of India 6 February 1926.

Sammundar Shah was commissioned as a Jemadar with the Transport Corps (110th Transport Company) in June 1918, having seen service in France and Mesopotamia. As verified by official sources, he had earlier served in the Chitral 1895 and Punjab Frontier 1897-98 operations, in addition to South Africa in 1902 and Tibet 1903-04.

Shah was advanced to Risaldar in the Mule Transport Corps in February 1923, awarded his I.D.S.M. in 1926, and retired with the rank of Risaldar-Major, holding the honorary British rank of Lieutenant, in August 1932. His appointment to the Order of British India (2nd class), with the title of Bahadur, was approved in April 1933; believed to have been also entitled to the India General Service 1908-35 and Indian Army L.S. & G.C.