Description

Offered is a India General Service Medal (1854 – 95) with clasp JOWAKI 1877 – 8, impressed named 2733 CORPL JOHN KEMSLEY. 51ST FOOT.; Afghanistan Medal (1878 – 80), with clasp ALI MUSJID, period engraved 2733 SERGT  J. KEMSLEY. 51st REGT. Court mounted for display, comes with copies of medal rolls.

The 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding, The King’s Own Light Infantry) Regiment became the 1st Battalion, King’s Own Light Infantry (South Yorkshire Regiment) in 1881.

It was deployed to India in 1857 to help suppress the Indian Rebellion and was still in India for the Ambela Campaign in 1863. It was also from India that it was deployed to Afghanistan in autumn 1878 and saw action at the Battle of Ali Masjid in November 1878 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.