Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

The 1st Class badge of the Order of British India awarded to Subadar Syed Imam Bahadoor, Bombay Sappers & Miners

Order of British India 1837, 1st Class, gold and enamels, the reverse attractively engraved within a circlet ‘Subadar Syed Imam Bahadoor Bombay Sappers & Miners’, extremely fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Ritchie Collection of H.E.I.C. and British India Medals.

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O.B.I. 2nd Class, with the title of “Bahadoor” GGO 12 October 1886.

No trace has been found of an appointment to the 1st Class but GGO 792 of 1894 admits Subadar-Major Shaikh Kadir, Bombay Sappers & Miners, to the 2nd Class of the Order, with effect from the 30th March 1894, ‘vice Subadar-Major Syed Imam, Bahadur, late Bombay Sappers & Miners, deceased.’ This would appear to indicate that Syed Imam had died on 30 March 1894, and that he was still a holder of the 2nd Class Order.