Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An exceptional campaign and double M.S.M. group of seven awarded to Regimental Quarter-Master Havildar Sant Singh, 32nd Sikh Pioneers, who participated in every campaign undertaken by the regiment from 1885 through to the Great War, including Colonel Kelly’s epic march from Gilgit to the relief of the besieged garrison at Chitral

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Sikkim 1888, Hazara 1891 (2301 Sepoy Sant Singh 32nd Bl. Infy.); India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Waziristan 1901-2 (2301 Havdr. Sant Singh 32nd Bl. Infy.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, silver issue (2301 Hav: Sant Singh 32nd Sikh Pioneers); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Abor 1911-12 (2301 Havildar Sant Singh 32nd Sikh Pioneers); Delhi Durbar 1911; Indian Meritorious Service Medal, E.VII.R. (2301 Colr: Havdr: Sant Singh 32nd Sikh Pioneers); Indian Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (2301 R.Q.M. Havr. Sant Singh, 1/Bn., 32/Sikh Pioneers.) the first with slack suspension and light contact marks, nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine or better (7) £1,200-£1,400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter Duckers.

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Sant Singh was born in Tah village, Sialkot district, in 1867. He enlisted into the 32nd Sikhs on 28 April 1885, and served with the regiment in every subsequent campaign in which it was involved. He was transferred to the Pension establishment by Medical Board in 1919, having received his second M.S.M. for services in India during the war.

Sold with an original ‘publishers presentation’ copy of With Kelly to Chitral by Lieutenant W. G. L. Beynon, D.S.O., Edward Arnold, 1896.