Indian General Service Medal. GV 2nd issue with clasp 'Burma 1930-32' (4677. Sep. Pir Dad, 2-15 Punjab R.)

The recipient was by ethnicity and faith a Punjabi Mussalman soldier serving with the 2nd Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment of the British Indian Army

During the Second World War 2/15th Punjab served in India, Singapore, Borneo and Netherlands East Indies, in which latter - after an epic fighting retreat from Borneo - the survivors of the battalion were captured and interred by the Imperial Japanese Army, and where as Far East Prisoners of War, the survivors of the battalion were scattered across Borneo, Sarawak & Netherlands East Indies. The battalion was reformed in June 1946, and in August 1947 was transferred (less its Hindu / Sikhs) to Pakistan

Condition: VF

Code: 24716