[3] For early campaigns it was awarded in silver to combatants and in bronze to native bearers and servants.

[1] The obverse shows the reigning monarch facing left with a suitable inscription.

There are three versions:[3] The reverse depicts Jamrud Fort at the Khyber Pass with the word ‘India’ below between a wreath of oak and olive branches.

[4] The ribbon, 1.25 inches (32 mm) wide, was green with a broad blue central stripe.

It is, by far, the rarest clasp given with an India General Service Medal, with the exception of only 14 ‘Burma 1930-32’ clasps, awarded to the Royal Air Force, and was only awarded after the then Chief of the Air Staff, Sir John Salmond, succeeded in overturning the War Office decision not to grant a medal for Pink's War.