Watch List notes:

*Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. 1st type (1446 Havdr: Barkat Shah 51st Sikhs (F.F.)), some contact marks & light pitting, nearly very fine. M.i.D.: London Gazette, 19 October 1916 (Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' – Mesopotamia). The 51st Sikhs were present during the Mesopotamia Campaign and were based at Ali Gharbi. Half of the 51st Sikhs were used in the attempted but ultimately unsuccessful Relief of Kut, where the 51st Sikhs' commanding officer Lieutenant-Colonel William Beadon was killed during the 'action of the Wadi' on 13 January 1916 in the face of fierce Ottoman resistance, along with Captain Hunter Forbes and Major P E Knapp. It seems plausible that his M.i.D. (and potentially also the I.D.S.M.) relate to this action. (£300-400)