TWO V.C. AWARDS
INDIANS' GALLANTRY ITALY AND BURMA TROOPS’ FiINE RECORD (10 a.m.) RUGBY. July 3. Two more Victoria Crosses have been won by members of the Indian Army: . , T , Lieutenant Karamjut Singh Judge, of the 15th Punjab Regiment to whorh an award has been made posthumously, won the decoration in Burma, and Sepoy Ali Haidar, of the 13th Frontier Rifles in Italy. The total number of Victoria Crosses awarded since the war began is now 154. Of these the. Indian Army has won 30 —a fine record •emphasised by the fact that the total won by all of the Empire forces is 31. The remainder have gone to the three'British fighting services.
Sepoy Ali Haidar’s Victoria Cross is the second awarded to the Indian Army in the Senio River engage ment where a fiercely contested as sauit was made on an intricate honeycombed system of defences ii precipitous floodbanks more than 30ft. high between which the rivei runs. A Victoria Cross award in the first action—to Scpov Namdeo Jadhas Fifth Mahratta Light Infantry—was announced on June 20.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21756, 4 July 1945, Page 3
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