Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (4255 Sepoy Bishn Singh, 59th Rfls.), polished, nearly very fine £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Scinde Rifles.

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Bishin Singh, who gained advancement to Havildar, died in Mesopotamia on 8 March 1917, quite possibly as a result of wounds received at Sannaiyat on 22 February. The son of Dewa Singh of Mirankot, Amritsar, he is commemorated on the Basra Memorial