Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar-Honours


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India General Service Medal 1854-1895

From: Spink's Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals.

"This was the first of several general service medals issued to cover minor campaigns in India and, unlike previous medals which were frequently awarded very many years or even decades after the actions. It was instituted its early as January 1854. The medal is found with numerous bars. and was never issued without at least one: twenty-three different bars were issued during the forty-year period. The majority "ere awarded for services on the Northern Frontiers of' India. particularly the NW Frontier. others being issued for expeditions to Persia and Burma. As with most of the previous medals. this was issued in silver but. for the lust time. the later medals from 1855 onwards were also issued in bronze. These being awarded to native support personnel such as transport drivers, servants and sweepers."

Bars to the India General Service Medal 1854-1895

Pegu
Persia
NW Frontier
Umbeyla
Bhootun
Looshai
Perak
Jowaki 1877-78

Naga 1879-80
Burma 1885-87
Sikkim 1888
Hazara 1888
Burma 1887-89
Chin Lushai 1889-90
Lushai 1889-92
Samara 1891

Hazara 1891
NE Frontier 1891
Hunza 1891
Burma 1889-91
Chin hills 1892-93
Kachin Hills 1892-93
Waziristan 1894-95

From: Spink's Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals, 1983..

		Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar Honours and Decorations
		Lord Roberts was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy while serving as a Lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Artillery (Indian Army) during the Indian Mutiny. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for gallantry. In 1899, his son, Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, was awarded the V.C. posthumously for his actions at the Battle of Colenso during the South African War.

		Background and short biography of Lord Roberts.
		In his autobiography, Forty-One Years in India, London, 1897, Lord Roberts recounts the Siege of Delhi (1857) during the Indian Mutiny (Chapters XIII through XIX).

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