INDIAN HEROES
GALLANTRY UNDER FIRE. LONDON, Bth December. Naik Darwan, a Victoria Cross hero, during the capture of the trenches at St. Hubert on 24th November, was wounded twice in the head and once in the arm. Yet he was the first to push round each successive traverse, and faced the bombs and rifle fire at the closest range. * Sepoy Khudadad, during the fighting at Hollebeke on 31st October, worked his gun, though wounded, until all the five others who belonged to the, detachment had been killed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1914, Page 7
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87INDIAN HEROES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1914, Page 7
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