Lot 510

General Service Medal, George V, Iraq bar, Silver Medal, 41.57 gms, 56.60 x 36.35 mm, Awarded to 751 SEPOY LILA RAM. 9-BHOPAL INFANTRY., Obv. effigies of the reigning monarch King George V facing left, legend around "GEORGIVS V BRITT: OMN: REX ET IND: IMP:" Rev. Britannia as Victory - helmeted and holding a trident in left hand, winged and extending a laurel wreath in right over a pair of wings set about a radiant globe above an inverted sword; the artist's initials E.CR.P. (E. Carter Preston) above the groundline to left of Britannia, This medal was instituted in 1923 as an army general service medal excluding service in India, East, West and Central Africa, MYB # 174, very fine+, very scarce.