Description
India General Service Medal, 1936-39, one clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 awarded to Sepoy Anant Ram 3rd (Royal) Battalion Sikhs 12th Frontier Force Regiment, (10205 Sepoy Anant Ram, 3-12 F.F.R.), very fine.
During World War Two the 3rd/12th Regiment, 5th Indian Division, saw Service in East Africa and the Western Desert Campaign. The 3/12th were all but destroyed at El Adem on the 15th of June 1942.
By the end of the War the Regiment, as a whole, had 1,444 killed and 3,503 wounded.