Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War O.B.I. group of eight awarded to Risaldar Sardar Bahadur Ghulam Kadir, 2nd Mule Corps and Indian Army Veterinary Corps, who received an Indian Army M.S.M. for services in Egypt during the Great War, and was Mentioned in Despatches for services on the North West Frontier in 1937.

Order of British India, 1st Class, 2nd type neck badge, gold and enamel; British War Medal 1914-20, unnamed; Victory Medal 1914-19 (1357 Vety Asstt Ghulam Qadir 2 Mule Cps) number and first half of rank officially corrected; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq, edge stamped ‘Specimen’; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1357 4th. Gde. Vety. Asstt. Ghulam Khader 2nd. Mule Corps) mounted for display purposes together with sections of riband for the 1914 Star and the India General Service Medal 1936-39, the latter with M.I.D. oak leaf emblem, generally nearly extremely fine (8) £800-1200

Ghulam Kadir was born in October 1888. He graduated from Veterinary College on 11 April 1908 and joined the Mule Corps. In War Services of the Indian Army 1941 he is listed as Risaldar with services in France from August 1914; in Egypt, where he was awarded the Indian Army Meritorious Service Medal; and in Iraq, to the 11 August 1919. He transferred to the Indian Army Veterinary Corps on 4 September 1918, and in 1935 was posted to No. 3 Section Indian Veterinary Hospital, Rawalpindi. As Jemadar he served in the North West Frontier Operations of 1936–37 with the Mobile Veterinary Section, RAZCOL, and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 18 February 1938). He was promoted to Risaldar on 1 September 1938 and served during the Second World War at the Military Veterinary Hospital in Risalpur and the Mobile Veterinary Hospital at Thal. He was awarded the Order of British India 2nd Class in 1941, and advanced to the 1st Class in 1942. He retired in 1945.