Guides Cavalry I.O.M.s

This picture of two I.O.M. recipients is taken from a (somewhat damaged) group photo of "Native Officers" of the Guides Cavalry (10th Queen Victoria's Own Frontier Force), taken sometime in the 1890s by John Burke.

It is important to begin by tracing changes in regimental nomenclature:

pre-1903  Queen's Own Corps of Guides
1903  Queen's Own Corps of Guides
1914-18  Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) (Lumsden's Cavalry
1922  10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force)
1945  10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guide Cavalry (Frontier Force)
post-1947  to Pakistan

The elder officer, on the right, seems to be wearing a group of four medals:

The only battle honor for the Mutiny awarded to the Guides was that for "Delhi" and, likewise, this was the sole regiomental bar elegibility for the Mutiny Medal. This much is easy. We must, however, take the possibility that this I.O.M. was awarded for the Mutiny (services which I cannot trace at present).

The younger officer, on the left, seems to be wearing a group of three medals:

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Regimental elegibility for the India General Service 1854 would have been:

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25 2 R Prem Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80 - 3rd ???

25 3 So Dewan Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80

25 3 So Jewan Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80

25 3 So Kardoo Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80

25 3 D Nand Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80

25 3 So Yakub Singh QO G Cav 1879 Afghan War, 1878-80

32 3 So Zaidullah QO G Cav 1880 Afghan War, 1878-80

22 3 J Jaggat Singh QO Guides Cav 1878 Utman Khels, 1878

22 3 D Torrabaz QO Guides Cav 1878 Utman Khels, 1878

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last revised 3 June 1998
Ed Haynes
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