Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An East African I.O.M. pair awarded to Private Sube Khan, 1st Baluch Light Infantry - awarded for gallantry in action against Sudanese mutineers, 9-10 October 1898

Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 1st type, 3rd Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, reverse with central nut fitting and engraved in three lines, ‘3rd / Class / Order of Merit’, additionally inscribed, ‘No. 959 Pte. Sube Khan 9-10 Oct. 1898’, with silver buckle on ribbon, enamel damage; East and Central Africa 1897-99, 1 clasp, Uganda 1897-98 (959 Pte. Sube Khan, 1st Baluch. L.I.) officially impressed naming, suspension refitted, contact marks and edge bruising, otherwise nearly very fine (2) £1400-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Indian Army from the Collection of AM Shaw.

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Ex Glendining's 28 November 1962; Glendining's 28 October 1981; Glendining's 22 June 1988.

Awarded the I.O.M. 3rd Class by G.G.O. 277 of 1900. 'The undermentioned non-commissioned officers and men of the 27th Bombay Infantry were admitted to the 3rd class, in recognition of the gallantry and devotion by them in action with an overwhelming force of Soudanese mutineers and other rebels, near Kitabu, Unyoro, on the 9th and 10th October, 1898, on which occasion they formed the rear and baggage guards of a detachment under the command of Lieutenant J. A. Hannyngton.'

No. 959 Sube Khan was one of 17 names listed under this heading.