India General Service Medal (1909)

The Indian General Service Medal (1909 IGSM) was a campaign medal approved on 1 January 1909, for issue to officers and men of the British and Indian armies. In 1925 it was also awarded to officers and men of the Royal Air Force.

The 1909 IGSM was awarded for various minor military campaigns in India, during 1908 to 1935. Each campaign was represented by a clasp on the ribbon; 12 were sanctioned.

Clasps

 * North West Frontier 1908 (Issued in bronze to native bearers)
 * Abor 1911–12 (Issued in bronze to native bearers)
 * Afghanistan NWF 1919
 * Mahsud 1919–20
 * Waziristan 1919–21
 * Malabar 1921–22
 * Waziristan 1921–24
 * Waziristan 1925
 * North West Frontier 1930–31
 * Burma 1930–32
 * Mohmand 1933
 * North West Frontier 1935

Waziristan 1925
The Medal with the Waziristan 1925 bar was awarded to only 46 officers and 214 men of the Royal Air Force who took part in Pink's War. It is by far the rarest bar given with an India General Service Medal and was only awarded after the then Chief of the Air Staff Sir John Salmond succeeded in overturning the War Office decision not to grant a medal for Pink's War.