MacGregor Medal

After the partition of British India into India and Pakistan, the award was adopted by India and continues to this day. So far 117 medals have been awarded: 7 gold medals to officers, 62 standard size silver medals to officers (including 5 JCOs), and 48 reduced size silver medals to soldiers.

Recipients

Notable British Indian Officers to have been awarded the MacGregor Medal include Francis Younghusband (1890), Orde Charles Wingate (1943) and Frederick Marshman Bailey.

Indian Officers who have won the medal:

• Lt Gen Zorawar Chand Bakhshi (1949)
• Col IC Katoch (1951)
• Capt MS Jarg (1956)
• 2/Lt IB Goel (1956)
• Capt V Badhwar (1957)
• Capt SL Tugnait (1959)
• Brig ML Whig (1969)
• Maj Prem Chand (1970)
• Col CS Nugyal (1971)
• Capt Ravindra Misra (1972)
• Sqn Ldr RK Makar (1986)
• Flt Lt Rana Chhina (1986)
• Lt Col NJ Korgaonkar (1997)

One officer has been awarded the medal twice - Major AS Lancaster in 1938, and then as Colonel in 1946.

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