Sutlej Medal

Infobox Military Award
name= Sutlej Medal


caption=
awarded_by= United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
type= Campaign medal
eligibility= British and Honourable East India Company forces.
for= Campaign service.
campaign= Sutlej 1845-46.
status=
description= Silver disk, 36mm diameter.
clasps=

Ferozeshuhur

Aliwal

Sobraon

established= 17 April 1846
total=


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The Sutlej Medal was a campaign medal approved in 1846, for issue to officers and men of the British Army and Honourable East India Company who served in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-46 (also known as the First Anglo-Sikh War). This medal was the first to use clasps to denote soldiers who fought in the major battles of the campaign.

The medal was approved on 17 April 1846, authorised for all who served in the Punjab between 7th September 1848 and 14th March 1849. Three clasps were authorised, although no medals were awarded with all three clasps. No unit qualified for both the clasps "Mooltan" and "Chilianwala". The medal was issued without a clasp to those units that were present in the Punjab but did not take part in fighting. [British Battles and Medals, p115-116]

Clasps

* Ferozeshuhur
* Aliwal
* Sobraon

The Sutlej Medal was also awarded for participation in the Battle of Mudki. There is no clasp, as the first battle the recipient of the medal participated in would be engraved directly onto the medal, with additional battles added by clasp. As there was no battle prior to Mudki, there was no need to produce a clasp for second-battle veterans. [cite book | title=Ribbons and medals : the world’s military and civil awards| last=Dorling| first=Henry Taprell| date=1974| edition=New Enlarged Edition (11th edition)| publisher=W.S. Cowell Ltd| location=Suffolk, England| id=ISBN 0-540-07120-X]

References

Bibliography

* Mackay, J and Mussel, J (eds) - "Medals Yearbook - 2005", (2004), Token Publishing.
* Joslin, Litherland, and Simpkin (eds), "British Battles and Medals", (1988), Spink