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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 232

An outstanding Immediate 1945 Burma operations M.M. group of four awarded to Sepoy K. Singh, 1/11th Sikh Regiment

Military Medal, G.VI.R. (25233. Sep. Kapoor Singh. Sikh R.) 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, privately engraved 'Sepoy Kapoor Singh 1/11 Sikh Regt 7 Indian Div'; War Medal 1939-45, very fine (4)

Ex-Colonel Sudlow Collection.

M.M. London Gazette 21 June 1945. The original recommendation - for an I.D.S.M. - states:

'At Pagan on 11 March 1945 Sepoy Singh was the Bren Gunner of a fighting patrol 16 strong which was returning to base. On drawing very near our position the patrol was ambushed by a party of the enemy in position by a small jheel. Singh was seriously wounded by a burst of fire in the left arm but continued to advance firing from the hip and gave such effective covering fire that the gun was silenced and the members of the post killed by the remaining members of the patrol.

Whilst so engaged the patrol was attacked from a flank by a greatly superior enemy force. The patrol immediately charged the advancing enemy and dispersed them, but found that they were in the centre of a strong enemy position, that the 9 survivors of the patrol were all badly wounded and that their only escape route to our own position was swept by MMG fire. Singh although only capable of firing his gun with one hand, continued to fire from the hip and to neutralise the enemy gun until the wounded survivors of the patrol had crawled past the vulnerable area towards our own lines.

He then withdrew himself and while doing so was wounded in the right arm and had his remaining magazine shot off his gun. Although now wounded in both arms he still brought he gun back with him. Had it not been for the inspired courage of Singh it is unlikely that there would have been any survivors of this encounter. 14 of the enemy were killed and many more wounded in this skirmish.'

Kapoor Singh was a Jat Sikh from Sindhar, Jullundur, Punjab.

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