Kabul to Kandahar Star

Kabul to Kandahar Star
Obvserse of the medal
Awarded by UK
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	British and British Indian Army
Awarded for	Campaign Service
Campaign	relief of Kandahar, 9–31 August 1880
Statistics
Established	1882
Related	Afghanistan Medal (United Kingdom)
Ribbon bar of the medal

The Kabul to Kandahar Star, also knowns as the Roberts Star or Kandahar Bronze Star was awarded to those troops who participated in the 320 mile march from Kabul to Kandahar in Afghanistan between 9–31 August 1880, under the command of General Frederick Roberts.^[1]

Description[]

Medal is a bronze five-pointed star 62mm high and 48mm wide, suspended by the Imperial Crown.

Obverse: in the middle is the royal monogram VRI, surrounded by the text "Kabul to Kandahar 1880".

Reverse: plain back with the name of the recipient around the edge.

References[]

↑ United Kingdom: Kabul to Kandahar Star, Medals of the World, accessed 28 December 2010

v t e British campaign medals

19th Century	Army Gold Cross (1810) Army Gold Medal (1810) Waterloo Medal (1815) Ghuznee Medal (1839) Candahar, Ghuznee, Cabul Medal (1842) Jellalabad Medals (1842) Medal for the Defence of Kelat-I-Ghilzie (1842) First China War Medal (1842) Scinde Medal (1843) Gwalior Star (1843) Sutlej Medal (1846) Naval General Service Medal (1847) Military General Service Medal (1847) Punjab Medal (1849) Army of India Medal (1851) India General Service Medal (1854) South Africa Medal (1854) Crimean War Medal (1854) Baltic Medal (1856) Indian Mutiny Medal (1858) Second China War Medal (1861) New Zealand Medal (1869) Abyssinian War Medal (1869) Canada General Service Medal (1866–70) Ashantee Medal (1873–74) South Africa Medal (1877–79) Afghanistan Medal (1878–80) Kabul to Kandahar Star (1880) File:Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal ribbon.svg Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal (1880–97) Egypt Medal (1882–89) North West Canada Medal (1885) British South Africa Company Medal (1890–97) East and West Africa Medal (1892) Central Africa Medal (1891–98) India Medal (1896) Ashanti Star (1896) Queen's Sudan Medal (1899) East and Central Africa Medal (1899) Queen's South Africa Medal (1899) Queen's Mediterranean Medal (1899)

Pre World War I	China War Medal (1900) Ashanti Medal (1901) King's South Africa Medal (1902) Africa General Service Medal (1902) Transport Medal (1902) (for South Africa or China) Tibet Medal (1905) India General Service Medal (1909)

World War I	1914 Star 1914–15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal Territorial Force War Medal Mercantile Marine War Medal

Inter World War	Naval General Service Medal (1915) General Service Medal (1918) India General Service Medal (1936)

World War II	1939–45 Star Atlantic Star Air Crew Europe Star Arctic Star Africa Star Pacific Star Burma Star Italy Star France and Germany Star Defence Medal War Medal 1939–1945

Post World War	Korea Medal (1951) General Service Medal (1962) Rhodesia Medal (1980) South Atlantic Medal (1982) Gulf Medal (1992) Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (1994)

21st Century	OSM for Sierra Leone (2000) OSM for Afghanistan (2002) OSM for Democratic Republic of Congo (2003) Iraq Medal (2004) Iraq Reconstruction Service Medal (2004) Civilian Service Medal (Afghanistan) (2011) Accumulated Campaign Service Medal (2011)

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