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Auction 30  18-20 Jan 2018
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Lot 1265

Starting price: 90 USD
Price realized: 75 USD
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GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR medal, India General Service Medal, bust of George V left in full regalia, GEORGIVS V KAISAR-I-HIND around // Jamrud Fort at the Khyber Pass with the word INDIA below between a wreath of oak and olive branches, AFGHANISTAN N.W.F. 1919 clasp, with new ribbon, awarded to 2046 Sepoy Massu, 1-2 Kashmir Rifles, EF, ex Ajit Singh Collection. The Indian General Service Medal (1909 IGSM) was a campaign medal approved on 1 January 1909, for issue to officers and men of the British and Indian armies. From 1919 it was also awarded to officers and men of the Royal Air Force, with the Waziristan 1925 clasp awarded solely to the RAF. The 1909 IGSM was awarded for various minor military campaigns in India from 1908 to 1935. Each campaign was represented by a clasp on the ribbon; 12 were sanctioned. For early campaigns it was awarded in silver to combatants and in bronze to native bearers and servants. From 1919 onwards all awards were in silver. AFGHANISTAN N.W.F.: Issued for the Third Anglo-Afghan War, which began on 6 May 1919 and ended with an armistice on 8 August 1919, resulting in the Afghans winning independence from the British Empire. According to British author Michael Barthorp, it was a minor strategic victory for the British because the Durand Line was reaffirmed as the political boundary between the Emirate of Afghanistan and British India and the Afghans agreed not to foment trouble on the British side.

Estimate: 100-150 USD
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