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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 27

India General Service 1854-95, 4 clasps, Burma 1887-89, Chin-Lushai 1889-90, N. E. Frontier 1891, Burma 1889-92 (3223 Sepoy Chandrabir Thapa. 42nd Bl. Infy.), private rivets and mounted in reverse order, suspension re-affixed, polished, nearly very fine

The 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry (re-designated 6th Gurkha Rifles in 1903) was eligible for the Medal and up to seven clasps for operations on the North East Frontier of India and Burma between 1871-91; this Medal represent the final four clasps that were awarded to the Regiment.

According to the Historical Record of The 6th Gurkha Rifles 1817-1919:

BURMA 1887-89

The 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry served in Burma from January 1888 to April 1890; half served under command of the 1st Brigade, based on Mandalay, and the other half under the Ruby Mines Command.

CHIN-LUSHAI 1889-90

The 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry formed part of the Northern Column operating from Burma.

BURMA 1889-92

In April 1889, 100 recruits [and their trained soldier instructors] of the 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry were on their way from Kohima to join the Regimental Headquarters at Fort White, when they were ordered to join the expedition of Brigadier General Wolseley against the Ponkan Kachins, for which they were eligible to the clasp.

N.E. FRONTIER 1891

The 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry initially provided part of the escort, under its Commander, Colonel C. McD. Skene D.S.O., to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, who proceeded to Manipur in 1891 to settle affairs of the State as a result of a revolution and abdication of the ruling Maharaja. Following the murder of the Chief Commissioner and Colonel Skene, an attack on and withdrawal of troops from the British Residency, three columns were assembled for the subsequent re-occupation of Manipur, which included 300 rifles of 42nd Gurkha Rifle Regiment of Bengal Infantry as part of the Cachar and Kohima Columns.


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