Subramanian (GC)

George Cross and its ribbon bar

Subedar Subramanian GC was the first Indian to be awarded the George Cross.[1]

He served with Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners, a unit of the Indian Army, during the Second World War. On 24 February 1944, during the Allied campaign in Italy he won the George Cross at Mignano by throwing himself onto a mine about to detonate and thus successfully protecting others from the blast. His award was gazetted posthumously on 30 June 1944. He was also awarded the India Service Medal (1939–45).

Footnotes

  1. ↑ World War Two – India 2 at www.wewerethere.mod.uk

References

  • Kempton, Chris, The Victoria Crosses and George Crosses of the Honourable East India Company and Indian Army, Military Press, 2001, ISBN 0-85420-309-5
  • Turner, John Frayn, Awards of the George Cross, 1940-2009,Casemate Publishers, 2010.


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