Auction Catalogue

15 January 2025

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 389

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To be sold on: 15 January 2025

Estimate: £60–£80

Place Bid

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (2982 Sepoy Rusmat Khan 57th. Rifles F.F.) first part of name officially corrected, nearly very fine £60-£80

Rusmat Khan, a native of Kalar Budhal, Kahuta, Rawalpindi, served with the 57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army, on the North West Frontier of India in 1908, and subsequently during the Great War on the Western Front. He died on 28 October 1914 and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.