Subadar Fateh Mohammed of the 4th Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment, receives a decoration from Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, 1944 (c)

Photograph, World War Two, India, 1944 (c).

Auchinleck was Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. The 4th Battalion had served in North Africa at Siddi Barrani and El Alamein before moving to Italy where they took part in the fighting on the Gothic Line.

From a collection of photographs relating to World War Two (1939-1945).