Auction Catalogue

17 & 18 September 2009

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1289 x

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18 September 2009

Hammer Price:
£2,500

A Great War O.B.I. group of seven awarded to Major Isa Khan, Bahawalpur Imperial Service Camel Corps

Order of British India, 1st Class neck badge, gold and enamels; 1914-15 Star (No. 4 Capt. Isa Khan, Bahawalpur I.S.C. Corps); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Isa Khan, Bah. I.S.C. Cps.); Delhi Durbar 1911; Bahawalpur Great War Star 1914-19 (Capt. Isa Khan, Bahwlpr. Caml. Cps.); Bahawalpur, Imtiaz-I-Abbasia, breast badge, silver and enamels, very fine or better (7) £2500-3000

O.B.I. 1st Class London Gazette 1 January 1924 (O.B.I. 2nd Class London Gazette 3 June 1916; for services in Egypt).

Isa Khan was commissioned on 1 January 1901 with the Bahawalpur Imperial Service Troops. From 1 January 1918 he was Adjutant and Second in Command of ‘Bahawalpur Combined Mounted Rifles and Camel Transport. He is shown with the rank of Major in the I.S.T. List for 1921.