The 1939-1945 Star. No clasp (19472 Sep. Amilal, 1st (Para) Bn., Kumaon R.)

The medal is an officially impressed 'Calcutta Mint' strike as issued to Indian Army veterans post-independence

Recipient was an Indian soldier who was holding the rank of Sepoy (Private) while serving with the 1st (Parachute) Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, of the Indian Army

Note that the medal is named to the unit the recipient was serving-in at time of Indian Independence, when the medal rolls were prepared, and in many instances that was not, the actual unit in which he served during the Second World War. The protocol for the naming of WW2 medals to Indian soldiers who had served in those regiments that had transferred to the Pakistan Army on 14 August 1947, but who had transferred for subsequent service in regiments of the Indian Army on, or after, 15 August 1947, was that their Second World War medals were named showing their service details and regiments that they served-in post independence, and not those used in the Second World War. The only officially named 'Indian Army' Second World War medals named to regiments that existed pre August 1947, but which did not transfer to India, are those to soldiers either Killed-in-Action, or died, and or who no longer served in the Indian Army on, or after. 15 August 1947

1st (Parachute) Battalion Kumaon Regiment (Russell's) - which unit had previously been styled 1st Battalion(Russell's) 19th Hyderabad Regiment (1922-1946) had a distinguished war record 1939-194, during which it served in: Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Iran (Persia). India, Burma, Indochina (Vietnam) and Netherlands East Indies. In the middle of 1946 the unit was selected to become a parachute battalion to serve in the 2nd Indian Airborne Division, at which time the unit was re-styled 1st (Parachute) Battalion Kumaon Regiment (Russell's)

Scarce seen named to a confirmed Indian 'Para'

Condition: VF

Code: 23205