Punjab & India General Service Group To Serjt John Butt,98th (Prince of Wales) Regiment of Foot (North Staffordshire) Regiment.

Punjab Campaign Medal 1848-49 : No Clasp ( John Butt, 98th Foot); India General Service Medal 1854-95 : 1 Clasp North West Frontier ( 1943 J Butt, H. M.s 98th Regt); Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal : Victoria ( 1943 Serjt John Butt, 98th Foot)
With copy of Medal rolls Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded 1863 with a £5 Gratuity
Campaign Service medals sent to him in Aldershot were he was an asst Warder at the Military Prison
served in the Punjab between 7 September 1848 and 14 March 1849 in operations against the Sikh Army of Sher Singh. From here the regiment was one of the first British units to serve on the North West Frontier, spending 1849 through to 1851 in and around the Kohat Pass. Engaged in a series of punitive raids against Pathan tribesmen, the men suffered greatly from disease with almost 200 invalided home
Condition GVF

Code: 69765