Pair: Sepoy Tek Singh, 1/41st Dogras
1914 Star (No. 705 Sepoy Tek Singh, 41/Dogras); Victory Medal (705 Sepoy Tek Singh, 1-41 Dogras.) suspension ring of VM misshapen, nearly very fine

1914 Star (No. 1660 Sepoy Prem Singh, 47/ Sikhs.) very fine

Pair: Sepoy Natha Singh, 1/55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force)
1914 Star (No. 1869 Sepoy Natha Singh, 1/55 /Coke’s Rfls. F.F.); 1914-15 Star (No. 1869 Sepoy Natha Singh, 55/Rfls. F.F.), an unusual ‘double issue’, very fine (5) £120-£160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Recipients of the 1914 Star.

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Natha Singh was among those men of the 55th Rifles who served during the Great War on the Western Front although the Regiment did not. Jamadar Mir Dast also of the 55th Rifles, won the regiment’s first and only Victoria Cross for distinguished gallantry in 1915 attached to Wilde’s Rifles in Belgium.