Kabul to Khandahar Star : Lance Corporal C Freeman, 2nd Battalion, 60th Regiment

Kabul to Khandahar Star. A five pointed star with a ball between all the points except the two uppermost where it has a fixed crown. Obverse: In the centre is the monogram 'V.R.I.' around which is a raised circular band. On this border in raised lettering around the top is, 'KABVL TO KANDAHAR', at the bottom is the date '1880'. Reverse: Plain except for the recipient's name and regimental details engraved around the hollow centre. The medal is fitted with a top rig suspender that has a piece of watered rainbow pattern ribbon of red, white, yellow, white and blue.

This medal is privately engraved to Lance Corporal Charles Freeman of the Second Battalion, 60th Regiment (Kings Royal Rifle Corps), who served with the relief column, under Sir Frederick Roberts, VC, that marched from Kabul to Kandahar (9 - 31 August, 1880) and fought at the Battle of Kandahar on 1 September, 1880. Lance Corporal Freeman is also entitled to the Afghanistan Medal with the bars 'Ahmed Khel' (19 April, 1880) and 'Kandahar'. The Kabul to Kandahar Star was made from guns captured from the army of Ayub Khan at the Battle of Kandahar. This medal is part of a collection assembled by the late Hon. Sir Thomas Hughes, Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales. It was presented to the Memorial in memory of his son, Captain Roger Forrest Hughes, Australian Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds in France on 11 December 1916, and of his grandson, Flying Officer Peter Roger Forrest Hughes, 12 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, who was killed on active service while flying in the Northern Territory on 3 October 1942.