A rare 'Korea Service' & 1965 Indo-Pak War medal group of 3: Lance-Naik Kishan Chand, 3rd Battalion Dogra Regiment, Indian Army

- Raksha Medal 1965 (3943202 L/NK. Kishan Chand Dogra.)
- Sainya Service Medal (Medal for Arduous Terrain Service) with Hindi clasp 'Jammu-Kashmir' (3943202 L-NK-CK. K, Chand. Dogra R.)
- Videsh Seva Medal(Foreign Service Medal). With clasp in Hindi 'Korea' (3943202 L-NK-CK. Kishan Chand, Dogra R.)

Last single letter 'A' in regiment name has been double struck, and is exactly as issued

The recipient was a an Indian soldier of Dogra Rajput ethnicity and the Hindu faith who latterly held the appointment of 'Lance-Naik (Lance-Corporal), while serving with a battalion of the Dogra Regiment, an infantry regiment of the Indian Army

The 3rd Battalion, Dogra Regiment, was the only battalion from the Dogra Regiment that served in Korea with the Indian Custodian Force

An estimated 125,000 North Korean and Chinese POW's had been captured by United Nations Forces during the Korean War, and post armistice, approximately more than a third of those POW's were refusing repatriation. The military force of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (chaired by India), was exclusively provided by the Indian Army, where it deployed as a 'Brigade' size force called the 'Indian Custodian Force' with function to provIde the security to protect, guard, process and where possible repatriate the remaining POW's

In total, India sent 5 x contingents of army & red cross personnel to the Indian Custodian Force, the contingents embarking from India variously between 18 March - 25 September 1953

The Videsh Seva Medal was created on 26 January 1960, and the clasp 'Korea' (instituted by MOD Notification No. 1339 of 22 July 1960) became the very first clasp to be awarded with the 'Overseas Medal'

A rare seen medal group to an infantry regiment of the Indian Army for 'Korea'

Condition: GVF

Code: 23887