India General Service Medal claps North West Frontier 1937-39 (15999 SEP. BASHIR AHMAD, 5-11 SIKH R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal - unnamed as awarded in an attractive recessed wooden frame.
15999 Sepoy Bashir Ahmad 5-11 Sikh Regt served NWF 1937-39 Served WWII Taken POW fall of Singapore Died in Japanese hands 30.6.1943 Remembered Singapore Memorial.
The Sikh Regiment fought bravely - "At Bakri, from 18 to 22 January, the Australian 2/19th and 2/29th battalions and the 45th Indian Brigade (Lieutenant Colonel Charles Anderson) repeatedly fought through Japanese positions before running out of ammunition near Parit Sulong. The survivors were forced to leave behind about 110 Australian and 40 Indian wounded, who were later beaten, tortured and murdered by Japanese troops during the Parit Sulong Massacre.
Of over 3,000 men from these units only around 500 men escaped. A determined counter-attack by the 5/11th Sikh Regiment (Lieutenant-Colonel John Parkin) in the area of Niyor, near Kluang, on 25 January and an ambush around the Nithsdale Estate by the 2/18th Australian Battalion on 26/27 January bought valuable time and permitted East Force, based on the 22nd Australian Brigade (Brigadier Harold Taylor), to withdraw from eastern Johor (formerly Johore). On 31 January, the last Commonwealth forces crossed the causeway linking Johor and Singapore and engineers blew it up."
Singapore had fallen
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