The Indian General Service Medal (1936 IGSM) was a campaign medal approved on 3 August 1938, for issue to officers and men of the British and Indian armies...
4 KB (356 words) - 08:25, 9 July 2022
in India, over the course of around 130 years: Army of India Medal (1803–1826) India General Service Medal (1854–95) India Medal (1895–1902) India General...
677 bytes (117 words) - 14:10, 15 March 2013
Punjab Medal (1849) Army of India Medal (1851) India General Service Medal (1854) South Africa Medal (1854) Crimean War Medal (1854) Baltic Medal (1856)...
10 KB (706 words) - 00:18, 27 May 2024
The General Service Medal (1918 GSM) was instituted to recognise service in minor Army and Royal Air Force operations for which no separate medal was...
14 KB (1,649 words) - 11:18, 10 November 2023
Following the Partition of India in 1947, he opted for the Dominion of Pakistan, subsequently transferring his military service to the newly created Pakistan...
34 KB (2,368 words) - 20:55, 25 October 2024
Medal (1905) India General Service Medal (1909) India General Service Medal (1936) India Service Medal (1946) Mysore (1789–91) Egypt (battle honour) (1801)...
9 KB (612 words) - 12:08, 1 October 2024
Awards and decorations of the British Armed Forces (section Efficiency and long service decorations and medals)
programme to receive medal". Sky News. Retrieved 28 July 2023. Ministry of Defence, JSP761, Chapter 8, Annex A, para 3, 'General Service Medal 1962' Ministry...
95 KB (1,642 words) - 20:25, 18 June 2024
Canadian honours order of wearing (redirect from Canadian order of precedence (Decorations and Medals))
of the Naval General Service Medal (1915–62) Recipient of the India General Service Medal (1936–39) Recipient of the General Service Medal - Army and Air...
42 KB (1,544 words) - 18:18, 29 October 2024
Parkash Singh (category Recipients of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal)
British India (now modern Pakistan) into a Jat Sikh family. He enlisted in the 8th Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army on 21 November 1936, seeing...
8 KB (764 words) - 20:24, 28 August 2024
Bakhtiar Rana (category Pakistani generals)
Military Academy in Dehradun, and passed out from the academy in 1936.: 786 In 1936, he was commissioned in the 1st Piffers in the Frontier Force Regiment...
17 KB (907 words) - 07:31, 29 October 2024
1939–1945 Star (category British campaign medals)
a military campaign medal instituted by the United Kingdom on 8 July 1943 for award to British and Commonwealth forces for service in the Second World...
25 KB (2,569 words) - 23:42, 7 November 2024
Ayub Khan (redirect from General Mohammad Ayub Khan)
Military College at Sandhurst on the recommendation of General Andrew Skeen; he trained first in India and then departed for Great Britain. Ayub Khan was...
108 KB (10,188 words) - 01:10, 15 November 2024
Rajendrasinhji Jadeja (redirect from General M Rajendra Singh)
The Gazette of India. 27 May 1950. p. 41. Nawanagar Gazette of India. 1953. p. 1475. Major General M. S. Pratapsinhji; 2. Major General M. S. Himatsinhji;...
21 KB (1,375 words) - 06:13, 14 November 2024
Territorial Force War Medal was a campaign medal awarded to members of the British Territorial Force and Territorial Force Nursing Service who served overseas...
6 KB (615 words) - 14:15, 20 April 2024
Ghulam Rasul Raja (section Early military service)
extensively on the northwest Frontier of India, taking part in the northwest Frontier 1930–31, Mohmand 1935 and Waziristan 1936-37 campaigns. The battalion went...
11 KB (748 words) - 20:55, 28 August 2024
Muhammad Anwar Khan (category Pakistani generals)
has a long martial tradition of serving in the British India and Pakistan military. Maj. General Muhammad Anwar Khan belonged to a family of 9 brothers...
24 KB (3,365 words) - 06:33, 15 November 2024
General Abdul Hamid Khan HQA SPk SQA (Urdu: عبد الحمید خان) was a senior officer in the Pakistan Army. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, he led the...
12 KB (664 words) - 23:13, 14 November 2024
Anant Singh Pathania (category Indian generals)
Government of India Press. 1947. pp. 205E. "New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. Archived...
22 KB (2,161 words) - 22:54, 3 November 2024
Kenneth Muir (British Army officer) (category Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States))
served on the north-west frontier of India from 1935 to 1938, and during the Second World War saw active service in the Sudan, north Africa, Italy, France...
8 KB (746 words) - 00:07, 25 February 2024
Orde Wingate (redirect from Major General Wingate)
Gazette (Supplement). 3 August 1943. p. 3522. "MacGregor Medal". United Service Institution of India. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved...
69 KB (8,858 words) - 05:03, 17 November 2024
Thakur Mahadeo Singh (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
of India Press. 1945. pp. 155–156. "No. 37363". The London Gazette. 23 November 1945. p. 5713. "New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services" (PDF)...
16 KB (1,080 words) - 21:54, 28 August 2024
The team is governed by the association Hockey India. In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold medal and until 1960, the Indian men's team remained...
147 KB (4,495 words) - 20:49, 19 November 2024
B. K. N. Chhibber (category 1936 births)
honoured with the Ugen Thogyal Medal by Bhutan for his services in 1967. Chhibber had also contested the 2009 Indian general election from Amritsar representing...
3 KB (274 words) - 19:47, 19 September 2024
Raja Jahandad Khan (category Recipients of the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal)
Medal by the Viceroy of India, Lord Hardinge, in recognition of the many years of service since 1877 he had so loyally given the British Raj in India...
4 KB (513 words) - 11:04, 23 October 2024
Victorian Medal (RVM) is a decoration established by Queen Victoria in April 1896. A part of the Royal Victorian Order, it is a reward for personal service to...
8 KB (741 words) - 21:09, 10 September 2024
and flights. The medal was instituted in May 1887 to honour the memory of United Service Institution of India founder, Major General Sir Charles MacGregor...
18 KB (1,198 words) - 04:36, 19 August 2024
Hamid Gul (redirect from Lt. General Hameed Gul)
Lieutenant General Hamid Gul HI(M) SI(M) SBt (Urdu: حمید گل; 20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) was a Pakistani three-star general and defence analyst...
38 KB (3,490 words) - 13:13, 2 October 2024
Claude Auchinleck (redirect from General Auchinleck)
Army commander who saw active service during the world wars. A career soldier who spent much of his military career in India, he rose to become commander-in-chief...
50 KB (5,364 words) - 01:34, 2 November 2024
Siri Kanth Korla (redirect from Major General Siri Kanth Korla DSO MC PVSM)
Seva Medal (PVSM) by the then President of India, V. V. Giri. After retiring from the army, from 1972 to 1976, Korla served as the Director General of the...
18 KB (1,258 words) - 11:06, 20 November 2024
Brij Mohan Kaul (category Recipients of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal)
Vishisht Seva Medal in 1960. He was born on 1 May 1912, in a Kashmiri Pandit family to Gaura and Jagmohan Kaul in Lahore, Punjab, British India. His birth...
12 KB (1,420 words) - 12:22, 16 August 2024