War Medals and Their HistorySteward, William Augustus
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War Medals and Their History
Steward, William Augustus
Great Britain. Army -- Medals, badges, decorations, etc.; Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Medals, badges, decorations, etc.
LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDALS.]
Two divisions took part in this campaign, and European troops
participated only with the Burma section. 1st King's Own Scottish
Borderers, and detachments of 1st Batt. Cheshire and Norfolk Regiments.
The native troops were: 2nd Batt. 4th and the 42nd Goorkas; two
companies of the Queen's Own Madras Sappers and Miners. The troops
engaged with the Chittagong column were: 2nd Goorkas, 3rd and 9th
Bengal Infantry; 28th Bombay Pioneers, and a company of Bengal Sappers
and Miners.
=North-East Frontier, 1891.=--Early in 1891 the British Resident at
Manipur was attacked, and columns from Tamu on March 28th, Silchar on
April 15th, and Kohmia on April 20th were sent forward to secure the
submission of the Rajah and the punishment of those responsible for the
attack on the Resident. The Rajah submitted to the terms laid down, and
by May 7th, 1891, the campaign was brought to a conclusion.
The Manipur Field Force consisted of about 300 of the 4th King's Royal
Rifles; 1st Batt. 2nd Goorkas; 2nd Batt. 4th Goorkas; detachments of
the 42nd, 43rd, and 44th Goorkas; 18th Bengal Infantry, and the 8th
Bengal Mountain Battery. For this expedition the bar for the N.E.
FRONTIER 1891 was added to the India General Service Medal 1854.
=Hunza, 1891.=--Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon Durand had foreseen that
trouble was brewing, and made very praiseworthy efforts not only to
circumvent it, but to ensure that should hostilities occur he would be
in a position to defend himself against the robbers and slave-dealers
who surrounded him. An attack had been made on the Chalt garrison,
and further trouble was anticipated when Durand informed the chiefs
of Hunza and Nagar, without referring to their misconduct, that the
British intended having free access to their territory in order that
"all requisite arrangements might be made for holding the frontier, and
that unless they complied with our demands troops would enter their
country, and make roads in spite of them." The tribesmen armed, and
"confident in the strength of their defiles ... and to defeat Kashmir
troops as of yore," they collected, and Colonel Durand concentrated
at Chalt, from whence on November 29th an ultimatum was sent to the
chiefs; but the envoy was insulted and robbed of his horse, so the
British force crossed the Hunza River on December 1st by a temporary
bridge thrown by Captain Aylmer, V.C., and the war which Colonel Durand
had striven to prevent commenced, and with a little force of 1,000 men
and 2 guns he opposed himself to about 5,000 or 6,000 men.
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