Following a recent post where I counted through the 474 individual awards for gallantry in the Burma campaign and identified the country of origin of the recipient, I was asked by a number of friends for an analysis of the awards in the Indian Army between Indian and Gurkha regiments.
The problems with gallantry citations is someone seeing the event and surviving to write it up. And then get through a review process. I wonder how many actions that might have warranted an MC or even a VC went unnoticed or unrecorded because literally nobody lived to tell the tale.
The problems with gallantry citations is someone seeing the event and surviving to write it up. And then get through a review process. I wonder how many actions that might have warranted an MC or even a VC went unnoticed or unrecorded because literally nobody lived to tell the tale.