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Name Prakash Singh No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1311 Awards VC
Regiment Indian Army, 4/13th Frontier Force Rifles
Later
Now Frontier Force Regiment, Pakistan Army
Rank VC Won Jemadar
Rank End Of Career Jemadar
Place Of Birth Kanachak Village, Kathua District, Kashmir, India
Place Of Death Kanlan Ywatkit (Ywathit), Burma (now Myanmar)
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Burma (now Myanmar)
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 1 May 1945
VC Presented 19 December 1945, Viceroy Lord Wavell, Red Fort, New Delhi, India
Memorials
P Named on Rangoon Memorial (face 43), 20 miles north of Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma (now Myanmar)
P Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Green Park, London
By The Way…
VC Held By
Not Known
BORN 1 April 1913
DIED 17 February 1945 AGE 31
VC Won 16-17 February 1945 AGE 31
Place VC Won Kanlan Ywatkit (Ywathit), Burma (now Myanmar)
War/Campaign Second World War