Distinguished Service medal group (GV1) , excellent Merchant Seaman award for the action between Armed Merchant Cruiser (previously RMMV) Caernarvon Castle and the German Raider ‘Thor’, 5 December 1940. Later served Operation Pedestal , the epic Malta convoy (oil tanker Ohio) where aboard and surviving the sinking of MV Wairangi when torpedoed and sunk by enemy torpedo boats
1 × £1,675.00 Subtotal: £1,675.00
Indian Police Distinguished Conduct (GV1)
Munsaf Hussain Shah, Foot Constable 390, Punjab
Government of India Gazette, 16 September, 1939 (copy accompanies)
Foot Constable Munsaf Hussain Shah joined. the Punjab Police as a Constable in July, 1932. On the morning of 1st August, 1939, when a Sikh shopkeeper of Jhelum city, was opening his shop, murderous and unprovoked assault was made on him by a fanatical Muslim armed with a sword. Bystanders and neighbouring shopkeepers took to their heels, but Foot Constable Munsaf Hussain Shah, who was on traffic duty, immediately ran to the assitance of the shopkeeper and although unarmed grappled with the assailant and after a severe struggle succeeded in overpowering and disarming him.’
A note beneath states
‘This award is made for gallantry under Regulation d(1)
