A ‘North West Frontier 1939’ I.D.S.M. awarded to Subadar Kartar Singh, 4-th Punjab Regiment

Indian Distinguished Service Medal, G.VI.R. (Jemdr., 4-8 Punjab R.) lacking brooch bar, minor contact marks, very fine £700-800

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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I.D.S.M. London Gazette 17 October 1939, for services on the North West Frontier of India.

Kartar Singh enlisted on 17 February 1915, was appointed a Jemadar on 16 August 1932 and Subadar on 16 February 1939. He served in the Great War in Iraq, January 1917-November 1918; in Iraq, 1919-20, and on the North West Frontier, 1936-37. With copied research.