Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Gunner Pritam Singh, 1st Mountain Battery, Indian Army

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (33040 Dvr. Pritam Singh. 1 Mtn. Bty.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (33040 Gnr. Pritam Singh, 1 R. Mtn. Bty) generally very fine and scarce to a Sikh ‘Mountain Gunner’ (2) £100-£140

The 1st Mountain Battery was raised in 1851 as an artillery unit of the Punjab Frontier Force. Styled in 1928 the 1st Royal (Kohat) Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery, the unit later served during the Second World War in the Burma Campaign under higher formation 17th Indian Division - whose constituent units were famously referred to as ‘Black Cat’s’ in reference to their distinctive divisional insignia.