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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 474

(x) A rare bronze India General Service Medal for the Defence of Chitral awarded to Dooly Bearer Yamaladi Istharee, Madras Commissariat Department

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Chitral 1895, bronze (644 Dooly Bearer Yamaladi Istharee Comt. Transpt. Dept. Madras), nearly extremely fine and rare

According to Younghusband's The Relief of Chitral there were seven Commissariat and Transport followers present at the defence of Chitral, all of whom would have received bronze awards.

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Estimate
£2,200 to £2,500