24782

Sepoy Bandhari Ram

10th (16th?) Baluch Regiment

Date of Action: 22 November 1944

Place of Action: East Mayu, Arakan, Burma

Date and Place of Birth: 24 July 1919, Pargna village, Gugeda, Bilaspur tehsil, Himachal Pradesh, son of Nihala

Enrolled: 24 July 1941

Retired:  as Captain, living in India in 1997


CITATION

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London Gazette, 8 February 1945


The picture to the left was taken ca. 1 July 1997, at the reunion of the VC and GC Association. At that point in time, Bhandari Ram was confined to a  wheelchair.

A link to Bhandari Ram on Mike Chapman's VC pages.


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last revised 30 March 1998
Ed Haynes
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