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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 33

The India General Service Medal awarded to Sepoy B. Gurung, 1st Gurkhas, dangerously wounded in the action at Wana on 3 November 1894, whose life was saved by Bugler D. S. Bhandari, who earned an Indian Order of Merit for his gallantry

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1894-95 (3031 Sepoy Birdhoj Gurung 1st Bn 1st Gurkhas), good very fine

Birdhoj Gurung is listed in the Return of Casualties at Wana on 3 November 1894 as:

'...dangerous, incised wound through left wrist over left eye; three sword cuts over back' (London Gazette 14 June 1895 (p3382-3383), refers).

The 1st Battalion was awarded eight Orders of Merit. According to the citation of 2907 Bugler Dhan Sing Bhandari:

'He saved the life of Sepoy Birkdhoj Gurung, when the latter was wounded, by taking his rifle and shooting at a Waziri, and recovering from him a Government Martini-Henri rifle which he had stolen.'


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