Image source: vconline.org.uk/michael-allmand-vc/4585912844
Victoria Cross, 1939 - 1945. Indian Armoured Corps attached 3bn 6th Gurkha Rifles. Resident of Golders Green.
Our Picture source together with his give much information about this army officer. The also confirms that his body was exhumed from Plot 4, Row J, Grave 5 in the Sahman War Cemetery on 29 June 1954 and in Plot 13, Row A, Grave 4 of the Taukkyan War Cemetery, Mingaladon, Burma (now Myanmar).
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Captain Michael Allmand, VC
Five of the names were added at a later date to the 1914 - 18 plaque, and one...
Designed by Liam O'Connor as a reduced-scale version of Lutyens' monument at ...
Field Marshal. Born near Bristol, brought up in Birmingham. Fought and wounded in WW1. 14th Army Burma, 1943 - 1945, recaptured Burma from the Japanese in WW2. 1953 - 1960 Governor General of Austr...
Captain Frank Raymond Boyles was born on 24 July 1920 in Syriam, Burma (now Thanlyin, Myanmar), the younger son and second of the three children of James Richard Boyles (1886-1970) and Marie Caroli...
Hector Hugh Munro was born on 18 December 1870 in Akyab, Burma (now called Sittwe, Myanmar). He adopted the pen name of Saki in 1900. He travelled widely and was in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 when t...
More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.
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