Subadar-Major Sardar Bahadur
Mowladad Khan

20th Punjab Infantry

While the picture presented here is of rather poor quality, seems heavily retouched, and all detail on medals is fairly "muddy," the attached image of Subadar-Major Sardar Bahadur Mowladad Khan, C.I.E., I.O.M., is an important document.

Dates and Places of Action: ???; ???; Bori Valley, Jowaki, 5 and 7 December 1877

CITATION

FIRST CLASS:

". . . in consideration of . . . conspicuous gallantry in action against the Jowakis in the Bori Valley . . . on the 5th and 7th December 1877 . . . ."

Army Order 378 of 1878
Hypher, vol. 2, p. 22

Served in the Peshawar Column in Jowaki, under Brigadier-General C. C. G. Ross.

SECOND CLASS:

presently unknown

THIRD CLASS:

presently unknown

Subadar-Major Mauladad Khan's regiment is presently unknown, as are the full details of his I.O.M. (only barely visible in the image). His Order of British India, First Class, is the only clearly visible medal on his tunic, although it would seem that he is wearing seven medals. I can find no trace of a C.I.E. in this photograph.

Based on the attribution in the source for the photograph (Donovan Jackson, India's Army; London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. ca. 1940), the subadar-major enlisted in a Punjab infantry regiment in 1847 and retired in 1890. This remarkable record requires that even this preliminary information be made available, pending additional research.