India Medal

India Medal

Awarded by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	British and Indian forces.
Awarded for	Campaign service.
Campaign	India 1895-1902.
Description	Silver or bronze disk, 36mm diameter.
Clasps	Defence of Chitral 1895 Relief of Chitral 1895 Punjab Frontier 1897-98 Malakand 1897 Samana 1897 Tirah 1897-98 Waziristan 1901-02
Statistics
Established	1896
Example of medal with Relief of Chitral clasp.

The India Medal was a campaign medal approved in 1896^[1] for issue to officers and men of the British and Indian armies.

The India Medal was awarded for various minor military campaigns in India, chiefly for service on the North-West Frontier during 1895 to 1902. This medal replaced the India General Service Medal (1854). Each campaign was represented by a clasp on the ribbon; seven were sanctioned.^[2]

The ribbon pattern was red, green, red, green, red.^[3] Whilst the obverse of the medal itself held the profile of Queen Victoria, or, after January 22, 1901, King Edward VII, the reverse portrayed a British and an Indian soldier carrying a standard together.

Clasps

The following clasps were issued with the medal:

Defence of Chitral 1895

3 March - 13 April 1895

Relief of Chitral 1895

7 March - 15 August 1895

Punjab Frontier 1897-98

10 June 1897 -- 6 April 1898

Malakand 1897

26 July - 2 August 1897 (Awarded to troops involved in the Siege of Malakand.)

Samana 1897

2 August - 2 October 1897

Tirah 1897-98

2 October 1897 - 6 April 1898

Waziristan 1901-02

23 November 1901 - 10 March 1902

Obverse variations

Queen Victoria (1895-1901)

References and notes

↑ Army Order dated 1 April 1896 approved the 'India Medal 1895' with two bars: 'Defence of Chitral 1895' and 'Relief of Chitral 1895'. see British Battles and Medals, p. 177
↑ Wilkinson-Latham, p. 22
↑ Barthorp, p. 178

Bibliography

Barthorp, Michael. 2002. Afghan Wars and the North-West Frontier 1839-1947 Cassell. ISBN 0-304-36294-8
Mackay, J. and Mussel, J. (eds) - Medals Yearbook - 2006, (2005), Token Publishing.
Joslin, Litherland, and Simpkin (eds), British Battles and Medals, (1988), Spink
Wilkinson-Latham, Robert. 1977. North-west Frontier 1837-1947 Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-275-9

External links

Victorian Medals Indian General Service Medal 1895 - 1908 retrieved June 4, 2007

British campaign medals

19th Century	Naval General Service Medal (1793–1814) Naval Gold Medal (1793–1840) Military General Service Medal (1793–1814) Army of India Medal (1803–26) Army Gold Cross (1806–1814) Army Gold Medal (1806–1814) Waterloo Medal (1815) South Africa Medal of 1854 (1834–6, 1846–7, 1850–3) Ghuznee Medal (1839) First China War Medal (1839–42) Jellalabad Medals (1841–2) Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal (1842) Medal for the Defence of Kelat-I-Ghilzie (1842) Scinde Medal (1843) Gwalior Star (1843) Sutlej Medal (1845–6) New Zealand Medal (1845–7, 1860–6) Punjab Medal (1848–9) India General Service Medal of 1854 (1852–95) Crimean War Medal (1854–6) Baltic Medal (1854–5) Second China War Medal (1856–60) Indian Mutiny Medal (1857–8) Canada General Service Medal (1866–70) Abyssinian War Medal (1867–8) Ashantee Medal (1873–4) South Africa Medal of 1880 (1877–9) Afghanistan Medal (1878–80) Kabul to Kandahar Star (1880) Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal (1880-1, 1896–7) Egypt Medal (1882–9) North West Canada Medal (1885) East and West Africa Medal (1887–1900) British South Africa Company Medal (1890–7) Central Africa Medal (1891–8) India Medal (1895–1902) Ashanti Star (1895–6) Queen's Sudan Medal (1896–8) East and Central Africa Medal (1897–9) Queen's South Africa Medal (1899–1902) Queen's Mediterranean Medal (1899–1902) Transport Medal (1899–1902) (for South Africa or China) China War Medal (1900) Ashanti Medal (1900)

20th Century Pre-First World War	King's South Africa Medal (1902) Africa General Service Medal (1902–56) Tibet Medal (1905) Natal Native Rebellion Medal (1906) India General Service Medal (1909)

First World War	1914 Star 1914–15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal (United Kingdom) Victory Medal (South Africa) Territorial War Medal Mercantile Marine War Medal

Inter World War	Naval General Service Medal (1915) General Service Medal (1918) India General Service Medal (1936)

Second World War	1939–1945 Star Atlantic Star Arctic Star Air Crew Europe Star Africa Star Pacific Star Burma Star Italy Star France and Germany Star Defence Medal War Medal 1939–1945 Canadian Volunteer Service Medal Africa Service Medal India Service Medal New Zealand War Service Medal Australia Service Medal

Post War	Korea Medal (1951) General Service Medal (1962) Rhodesia Medal (1980) South Atlantic Medal (1982) Gulf Medal (1992)

21st Century	OSM for Sierra Leone (2000) OSM for Afghanistan (2002) OSM for Democratic Republic of Congo (2003) Iraq Medal (2004) Iraq Reconstruction Service Medal (2004) Civilian Service Medal (Afghanistan) (2011) Ebola Medal (2015) General Service Medal (2008) (2015)

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