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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 208

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp (2), Waziristan 1919-21 (....2 Rfmn. Urbahadur Gurung, 1-4 G.R.); Waziristan 1921-24 (2441 Rfmn. Chandarbir Thapa, 1-4 G.R.), very fine (2)

Although the official account of operations in Waziristan 1919-21 does not list the 1st Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles as serving in Waziristan, their own Regimental History records that the 1st Battalion joined the Wana Column at Jandola in in November 1920 and served on the Wana Lines of Communications until December 1921.

On conclusion of its tour of duty on the Wana Lines of Communication, the unit spent the next fifteen months on the Ladha Lines of Communication serving in all the major operations until the end of its tour in April 1923. The total casualties for its two years of service in Waziristan were 29 killed and wounded.

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