Catalogue description Medal Rolls

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Details of IOR/L/MIL/5/42-141
Reference: IOR/L/MIL/5/42-141
Title: Medal Rolls
Description:

The volumes consist of original and copy nominal rolls, extracts from Military Letters, General Orders, correspondence and receipts, used by the Military Department at East India House and the India Office for the actual ordering and despatch of medals. The sub-series is in no sense a 'formal' one and most of the volumes were made up from loose papers at a later date with frequent duplication. Indeed only some of the medals issued to the armies in India are covered.

 

The nominal rolls are normally arranged in order of regimental precedence and they are often annotated with details of death and next-of-kin; few are indexed. Those covering the Company's armies and the Indian Army are essentially concerned with European personnel only and the names of Indian recipients rarely appear (except, however, in L/MIL/5/87-103).

 

The following medals are covered:

 

L/MIL/5/42-44 East India Company's General Service Medal 1799-1826 (Army of India Medal)

 

L/MIL/5/45-65 India General Service Medal 1854

 

L/MIL/5/45 General

 

L/MIL/46-51 North West Frontier 1849-1863 and Umbeyla 1863

 

L/MIL/5/52-54 Pegu 1852-53

 

L/MIL/5/55-56 Persia 1856-57

 

L/MIL/5/57-60 Bhootan 1864-66 and Hazara 1868

 

L/MIL/5/61-62 Looshai 1871-72

 

L/MIL/5/63 Jowaki 1877-78

 

L/MIL/5/64 Naga 1879-80

 

L/MIL/5/65 Burma 1885-87

 

L/MIL/5/66 'Marine Medals' 1801-1860

 

L/MIL/5/67 China 1842

 

L/MIL/5/68 Jellalabad 1842 (second issue)

 

L/MIL/5/69 Scinde 1843

 

L/MIL/5/70 Sutlej 1845-46

 

L/MIL/5/71-72 Punjab 1848-49

 

L/MIL/5/73-105 Indian Mutiny 1857-58

 

L/MIL/5/106-107 China 1857-60

 

L/MIL/5/108-109 Abyssinia 1867-68

 

L/MIL/5/110-121 Afghanistan 1878-80

 

L/MIL/5/122-124 Kabul-Kandahar 1880

 

L/MIL/5/125 Egypt 1882

 

L/MIL/5/126 Delhi Durbar 1903

 

L/MIL/5/127 Delhi Durbar 1911

 

L/MIL/5/128-141 Miscellaneous 1845-1911
Date: 1799-1911
Related material:

Military Correspondece with India (see section L/MIL/3) and Soldiers' References (see L/MIL/5/362-75) also contain material on the award of medals, particularly claims subsequent to the original issue.
Held by: British Library: Asian and African Studies, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 100 volumes
Access conditions:

Open
Publication note:

Anthony Farrington, Guide to the records of the India Office Military Department IOR L/MIL and L/WS (London 1982), pp.49-53

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