Naik Narayan Sinde, 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, receiving the Indian Distinguished Service Medal from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, 1945

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1945.

Narayan Sinde was probably a member of the 4th or 6th Battalions of the 5th Mahratta Light Infantry, both of which were part of 23rd Indian Division. The latter played a leading role in the defence of Imphal (1944).

One of 68 photographs collected for the history of 23rd Indian Division.