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VC1272    Michael Allmand

Name   Michael Allmand    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1272   Awards   VC    

Regiment   Indian Army, Indian Armoured Corps attached to the 6th Gurkha Rifles

Later    

Now   

Rank VC Won    Acting Captain

Rank End Of Career   Acting Captain

Place Of Birth   Golders Green, London, England

Place Of Death   Mogaung Railway Bridge, Burma (now Myanmar)

Buried/Location Ashes   Taukkyan War Cemetery, 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), India

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone    Headstone (CWGC)     Plot/Grave no.   Plot XIII, Row A, Grave 4

Gazetted    26 October 1944

VC Presented   17 July 1945, King George VI, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Taukkyan War Cemetery, 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), India

P  Named on Chindit Memorial,  Embankment Gardens, Westminster, London

P  Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Green Park, Londo

Memorial Scotch Corner Chapel in his Honour, Oldstead, North Yorkshire

Memorial Window, St Edward the Confessor R.C. Church, Finchley Road, Golders Green, North West London

Named on War Memorial, Oriel College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Display at Gurkha Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire

By The Way…

VC Held By

Gurkha Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England

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BORN    22 August 1923

DIED  24 June 1944   AGE    20

VC Won   11-23 June 1944   AGE   20

Place VC Won   near Myitkyina, Burma (now Myanmar)

War/Campaign   Second World War