India General Service Medal : Lieutenant W L Ekin Smyth, Manchester Regiment

India General Service Medal (1936) with clasp for 'NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1936-37'. Impressed around edge with recipient's details. The reverse of the medal shows a tiger symbolically bridging a mountain pass with the word 'INDIA' above. The obverse shows the head of King George VI.

Associated with the service of Walter Lionel Ekin Smyth. Ekin Smyth graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1926 and was one of a select few invited to take up a commission with the British Army. He joined the Manchester Regiment and went on to serve on the Indian frontier with the Baluchistan Battalion in 1936 and in Burma during the Second World War. After the war, Ekin Smyth returned to Australia but later served in Pakistan where he was involved in establishing Pakistan's independence from the United Kingdom in 1947. The India General Service Medal (1936) was awarded for service on the India frontier between 1936 and 1939. The clasp was issued for service in operations largely against the Fakir on Ipi in Waziristan between 24 November 1936 and 16 December 1937.

• Pakistan Independence Medal : Temporary Lieutenant Colonel W L Ekin Smyth, British Army