India General Service Nth West Frontier 1930-31 Bar KGV to  No 543713 GNR.E.Claydon. R.A.

India General Service Medal with Nth West Frontier 1930-31 Bar KGV ,The India Medal of 1895 having needed alteration for its last issues due to the death of Queen Victoria, in 1908 it was decided to replace it entirely with a new medal of Edward VII, which was first issued in 1909. When the first issue was made under King George V, in 1911, Richard Garbe designed a new obverse but the medal was otherwise unaltered.
The North West Frontier that divided India and Afghanistan was a continual source of military trouble throughout the British rule of India, and very many medals and bars were issued for engagements there. One of the last was this issue of the Indian General Service Medal, awarded to forces involved in the suppression of a rising among the Afridi tribes beyond the border in 1930, and in that of the so-called Red Shirt Rebellion, a fledgling independence movement occasioned by the limited successes of the Indian Independence movement to the south-east.
This example was awarded to  No 543713 GNR.E.Claydon. R.A.