Description

Offered is 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 11699 SEP. SURAT RAM. M.G. BN. DOGRA R. Court mounted for display.

Machine-Gun Battalion, Dogra Regiment in October 1944, the M.G. Battalion returned to India in readiness for active employment in Burma and, by March 1945, it was actively engaged in the fighting at Meiktala. Subsequently, in the dash to Rangoon, and later in Java.

Following V.J. Day, the Battalion landed at Singapore, restoring order to the dockyard before moving inland. In November, however, they were ordered to Java, to counter Indonesian rebels who were calling for a republic: it was the commencement of a bloody uprising, initial Indian Army casualties amounting to 400 men, among them Brigadier A. W. Mallaby, who was murdered by a mob while trying to arrange a truce. 40 of men of the Battalion were killed or wounded, prior to the arrival of the Dutch in April 1946.