Indian Sub-continent - Khairpur Mounted Rifles and Camel Corps Cast Brass Shoulder Title

A one piece locally cast title with two small integral loops to the reverse, sadly one of this has been snapped in half, otherwise in good condition and scarce. This unit saw service in East African campaign in WW1.

The Khairpur Imperial Service Mounted Rifles joined the Imperial Service Troops scheme in 1905. The Imperial Service Troops scheme was created in 1888 from amongst the armies of the Independent Indian States in British India. Under the scheme troops from the participating States were trained under British supervision and were then used both on the North West Frontier of India and in places as far apart as China, during the Boxer Rebellion, and Somaliland. By the turn of the Twentieth Century the force numbered about 19,000 men.

Khairpur was established by the Talpur dynasty in 1783. Conquered by the British in 1843 following the Battle of Miani, Mir Sher Muhammad Talpur eventually gave up attempts to regain control of the area after a decade and entered into treaty with the British, thereby maintaining some autonomy as a princely state. The last Mir of Khairpur opted to join the new state of Pakistan in 1947, and the dominion was thus made a Princely state of Pakistan, until it was fully amalgamated into West Pakistan in 1955.

K42.6

Code: 67398