Description
India General Service Medal 1908, 2 bars, Mahsud 1919-20, Waziristan 1919-21, Lieut ***** 4-3 Gurkha Regiment. Attempted erasure to name obscuring recipient’s name.
Could be researched to determine the recipient through Army Lists for the period.
Officially impressed with some erasure to naming mostly to the recipients name: “LT **(B.S.?) ****LD 4-3 G.R.”
The 4th Battalion of the 3rd Gurkha Rifles was first raised at Rawalpinidi on 1st October 1916 by Major BC Nicolay as the 1st Reserve Battalion, Gorkha Rifles, it would then served for a number of years from 1916 until 1922 seeing action in the North West Frontier Province through the war, followed by the campaign against the Wazirs and the Mahsuds. After this it was disbanded and was raised once again during WW2.
