Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A ‘North West Frontier’ M.S.M. pair to Acting Staff Serjeant H. C. Hickman, Somerset Light Infantry

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919, unnamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (275361 Pte. (A. S. Sjt.), 1/Som. L.I.) nearly extremely fine (2) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 14 May 1920. ‘275361 Pte. (A./S./Sjt.) Hickman, H. C., 1st (G) Bn. Somerset Light Infantry’. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with operations on the North-West Frontier, India’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 3 August 1920. ‘... for distinguished service during the operations against Afghanistan ... despatch dated 1st November 1919’.

The Somerset Light Infantry provided the garrison at Amritsar in the Punjab at the time of the Massacre in April 1919. Only 4 ‘North West Frontier’ M.S.M’s. to the S.L.I.