Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Waziristan operations I.D.S.M. group of three awarded to Subadar Sohawa Singh, 34th, late 32nd Sikh Pioneers

Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Subdr. Sohawa Singh, 3/34/Sikh Pnrs) small correction to battalion number; Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse (3040 Lce. Nk. Sohawa Singh. 32d Sikh Pioneers); British War Medal (Jemdr. Sohawu Singh, 32 Sikh Pnrs.) nearly very fine (3) £700-900

I.D.S.M. G.G.O. 1589 of 1920 (Waziristan 1919-20).

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 June 1921, General Sir C. C. Munro’s despatch dated 1 August 1920 ‘for distinguished service during the operations in Waziristan 1919-20’.

Sohawa Singh, a Mazhbi Sikh, was born around 1878 and enlisted into the 32nd Sikh Pioneers on 4 June 1894. He first saw active service in Waziristan in December 1901 (Medal and clasp), and in 1903 served with the expedition to Tibet, including the storming and capture of Gyantse Jong. (Medal and clasp). In 1911 he took part in the Abor operations (Medal and clasp). He was promoted to the rank of Jemadar on 30 November 1914 and transferred to the 128th Pioneers, originally a Bombay regiment, and served with them in Egypt and (from December 1915) in Mesopotamia. He was promoted to Subadar on 16 September 1917 and appointed to the 3/34th Sikh Pioneers the following year (1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals). He next served in Waziristan 1919-20, including the operations against the Mahsuds, and almost certainly received the I.D.S.M. for gallantry during the Mahsud attack on Black Hill piquet, 21 December 1919, a feature subsequently renamed as Pioneer Piquet (2 clasps to Indian medal).

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