Major General Frank Messervy congratulating Jemadar Ramji Lal, who won his Military Cross on DIS Hill, 1946

Photograph, World War Two, Far East, 1946.

Also in the photograph are Jemadar Benarew Khan, MC, IDSM and the commanding officer of the battalion, Hugh Conroy. The photograph was taken at the unveiling of the 15th Punjab War Memorial at Kohima.

From a collection of official photographs from the Middle and Far East during World War Two. Collected by Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Frank Walter Messervy.