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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 39

Indian Order of Merit, Military Division, 1st type (1837-1912), Third Class, Reward of Valor, silver and enamel, an early flat-backed badge without retaining nut, the reverse engraved in three lines ´3rd. / Class / Order of Merit´, and additionally engraved 'No.1589 Sepoy Harnam Singh 36th Sikhs', enamel completely lacking, suspension ring re-affixed and offset 90 degrees, with simple ring suspension, lacking top riband buckle, fine

I.O.M. No.1589 Sepoy Harnam Singh
'For conspicuous gallantry at Fort Cavagnari on the 13th September 1897, on which occasion he took part in a daring sortie. The party, with the assistance of a reinforcement under Havildar Sundar Singh, drove the enemy from their sangars at the point of the bayonet, and captured three of their standards.'

1589 Sepoy Harnam Singh, I.O.M., served with the 36th (Sikh) Regiment, Bengal Infantry during the Samana Campaign, 1897; slightly wounded by a bullet to the forehead at Gulistan, 13-14.9.1897, and awarded the Indian Order of Merit Third Class for his service during this action.

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