Object number
202311.1.3
Title
Major General RIchard Edwin Aserappa's Indian General Service Medal, North West Frontier 1936-7 with MID
Description
This is part of a group of 4 medals, court mounted on a bar. It is a circular silver coloured metal medal suspended from a ribbon via scallop decorated metal fixtures, The ribbon has 2 dark green outer stripes, 2 narrow orange stripes on the inside and a central wide stone coloured band in the middle. The Oak Leaf decoration to indicate his MID (mention in despatches) is sown to the ribbon abover a metal horizontal bar which says " North West Frontier 1936-37". The Front face has a the head of King George VI in side profile wearing a crown, around this image it says "Georgius VI D G BR Omni Rex et Indiae Imp" On the rear there is an image of a growling tiger, with the word "India" above. This is the second medal on the bar from the left hand side. His details are engraved around the rim of the medal
Production place
India
Date
1936 - 1937
Production period
Windsor, 1910-, India, North West Frontier, 1936-1939
Material
Dimensions
- Height: 78 mm
- Diameter: 35 mm
- Width: name bar 37 mm
- Height: name bar 12 mm
- Depth: medal 30 mm
- Depth: court mount 50 mm
- Length: oak decoration 23 mm