Bob Bedward Posted 29 February , 2008 Share Posted 29 February , 2008 Hello - Do any Pals have any information about the above brave man please. Thank you Old Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay dubaya Posted 29 February , 2008 Share Posted 29 February , 2008 Hi Old Jack, there's a little bit here cheers, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphjd Posted 29 February , 2008 Share Posted 29 February , 2008 BORN 26-10-1888 Dabb Village Chakawl, Jhelum District, Punjab, India. Died 8-3-1971 age 82 at Chak No 25 Rukhan Tehsil Village , Phalia District, Mandi, Bahu-ud-Din Pakistan. Buried Rukhan Village Cemetery 31-10-1914 (Sepoy --Private) When all other men of his machine gun section had been killed or wounded, he continued working his gun, although badly wounded.Before he crawled back to his company to seek medical aid, he rendered his gun useless to the enemy. Gazette 7th Dec 1914. Commemoration: Statue of him in gardens of the Army Museum, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Silver Statuette at Quetta Staff College to his memory. KHUDADAD KHAN VC SUBADAR (2ND LT) 129TH DUKE OF CONNAUGHTS OWN BALUCHIS,INDIAN ARMY Cheers Ralph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Bedward Posted 29 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 February , 2008 Hello - Thank you very much Jon and Ralph. What great service, solved a problem for me. Best wishes Old Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelS Posted 31 October , 2009 Share Posted 31 October , 2009 It's good to see that the anniversary of the action for which Sepoy Khudadad Khan received his VC is mentioned on the MoD's Defence News 'On this day...' feature http://www.operations.mod.uk/onthisday/onthsday.htm On this day... 31 October 1914 : Sepoy Khudadad Khan was serving in the machine-gun section of the 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis at Hollebeke, when German fire killed all the other men in his detachment. Himself wounded, he nevertheless continued to man a machine-gun until the position was overrun. The German troops left him for dead, but he recovered sufficiently to crawl back to British lines and rejoin his unit. He was the first native-born Indian to be awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). and that he also has a page on Wikipedia now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khudadad_Khan NigelS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per ardua per mare per terram Posted 31 October , 2009 Share Posted 31 October , 2009 Also pictured later in life here: http://www.wewerethere.defencedynamics.mod...ww1/k_khan.html I wonder how many people realise that the first Indian VC winner was Moslem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frev Posted 14 June , 2014 Share Posted 14 June , 2014 Just resurrecting an old thread in case the following is of interest..... From a letter (dated 22/12/1914) written by an Australian Nurse (Lindsay Gray) who was serving in the Brighton Royal Pavilion Hospital at the time: King George asked that the Royal Pavilion and Dome should be turned into a hospital for the Indian troops. So the Corporation of Brighton has also turned over the county schools. The pavilion was built by George IV, as a palace, but of late years used as a concert hall. It is a beautiful place, great space filled now with beds and nice grounds. Here, as a patient, and a very sick one too, they have the first Indian to receive a V.C. He bayoneted a German officer, then 10 men. After that he feigned death, was hit by a German with the butt of his rifle, but never turned a hair, and later on he and a German officer dressed each other’s wounds. He tells the tale quite simply. Nothing to make a fuss about he thinks. Cheers, Frev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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