Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Jowaki 1877-8 (Jemadar Mehr Khan 4th Punjab Infy) suspension claw tightened, cleaned, very fine £200-£300

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force).

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A. M. Shaw Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, June 2013

Order of British India, 2nd Class, London Gazette 15 February 1896.

Mehr Khan enlisted in the 4th Punjab Infantry Regiment, 12 March 1860. He advanced to Jemadar, 1 May 1878, and to Subadar, 1 May 1881. Khan served with the Regiment against the Jowaki Afridis, and during the Zhob Valley Expedition of 1884 (wounded). He advanced to Subadar-Major, 1 December 1893, and was awarded the O.B.I. 2nd Class three years later.