THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO ACTING NAIK FAZAL DIN, 10TH BALUCH REGIMENT, HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE LORD ASHCROFT VC COLLECTION. |
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22 July 2016 |
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Medal entitlement of Acting Naik Fazal Din 7th Bn, 10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army
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The Victoria Cross and accompanying campaign medals awarded to Acting Naik Fazal Din, 7th Bn, 10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army, has been acquired by the Michael Ashcroft Trust the holding institution for the Lord Ashcroft Victoria Cross Collection. The Fazal Din VC group will go on display in the Imperial War Museum's Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
For the award of the Victoria Cross [ London Gazette, 24 May 1945 ], Meiktila, Burma, 2 March 1945, Acting Naik Fazal Din, 7th Bn, 10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army.
In Burma, on 2nd March 1945, Naik Fazal Din was commanding a section during a Company attack on a Japanese bunkered position. During this attack, the section found itself in an area flanked by three bunkers on one side and a house and one bunker on the other side. This was the key of the enemy position and had held up a Company attack made earlier. Naik Fazal Din's section was accompanied by a tank but, at the time of entering the area, it had gone on ahead.
The family of Fazal Din were invested with his Victoria Cross by Viceroy Lord Wavell at the Red Fort, New Delhi, India, on the 19th December 1945.
Fazal Din's body was never recovered from the battlefield and therefore has no known grave. His name is carved on the Rangoon Memorial, Burma, Face 36. |
Iain Stewart, 22 July 2016