PRE WW1 BRITISH ARMY AFGHANISTAN MEDAL 1878, SOWAR KHAN. 15TH BENGAL CAVALRY

Description

Offered is an original Afghanistan Medal (1878-1880), engraved named in period sloping script: Sowar Karram Khan 15th Bengal Cav^y.

Medal in generally good overall condition, polished somewhat to obverse, but generally much better to reverse, the naming very good to rim.

15^th Bengal Cavalry (Cureton’s Multanis) had the following changes of name:

1857 Independent Risalas of Pathan Horse

1858 Multani Regiment of Cavalry

1860 Cureton’s Multani Regiment of Cavalry

1861 15th Regiment of Bengal Cavalry

1871 15th (Cureton’s Multani) Regiment of Bengal Cavalry

1890 15th (Cureton’s Multani) Regiment of Bengal Lancers

1901 15th (Cureton’s Multani) Bengal Lancers

1903 15th Lancers (Cureton’s Multanis)

1921 Merged with 14th Murray’s Jat Lancers to form 14th/15th Cavalry

1922 20th Lancers