Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar-Honours

India General Service Medal 1895-1902

From: Spink's Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals.

"This medal was introduced to replace the I.G.S. medal 1854-95 which had been awarded for the last forty years, having a total of twenty-three different bars, consequently. there was a need for an entirely new design and new issue.

"The medal was issued with two different obverses. the first bore the crowned head of Queen Victoria. and the second the head and shoulders of Edward VI I in field marshal's uniform.

"As with the previous medal, this was issued for services mostly on the North-West Frontier over a six-year period."

Bars to the India General Service Medal 1895-1902

Defence of Chitral
Relief of Chltral
Punjab Frontier 1897-98
Malakand 1897
Samana 1897
Tirah 1897-98
Waziristan 1901-02

From: Spink's Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations and Medals, 1983..

		Field Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar Honours and Decorations
		Lord Roberts was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy while serving as a Lieutenant in the Bengal Horse Artillery (Indian Army) during the Indian Mutiny. The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for gallantry. In 1899, his son, Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts, was awarded the V.C. posthumously for his actions at the Battle of Colenso during the South African War.

		Background and short biography of Lord Roberts.
		In his autobiography, Forty-One Years in India, London, 1897, Lord Roberts recounts the Siege of Delhi (1857) during the Indian Mutiny (Chapters XIII through XIX).

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