WW2 BURMA & INDIA SERVICE MEDALS & G.S.M. (S.E ASIA) TO 15212 LANCE NAIK RAM 3-2 PUNJAB REGIMENT INDIAN ARMY

A 1939 -45 Star, Burma Star, British War Medal (1939 ? 45), India Service Medal (1939 - 45), all un named as issued, British General Service Medal (1918 ? 62), with clasp S.E.ASIA 1945 -46, impressed named 15212 L/NK. BHAGAT RAM. 3-2 JUNJAB R. Court mounted for display.

The 3/2nd Punjab Regiment was part of the 9th Indian Infantry Brigade, 5^th?Division during the Second World war.

The 5th Division took part in the Defence of Imphal and in the reoccupation of Tiddam. It formed part of the 'Fourteenth Army' in the final stages of the Occupation of Burma.

In April 1945 the division was withdrawn from the north of Rangoon to take part in mopping up operations, until it embarked for Malaya, the division was the first ashore in Singapore, to reoccupy the city on the 5th Sept 1945, two months later the formation moved to Java where it was engaged in restoring peace among the Indonesian people.