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Sepoy Khuda Dad Khan

129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

Date of Action: 31 October 1914

Place of Action: Hollebeke, Belgium and France

Date and Place of Birth:

CITATION

"On 31 October 1914, at Hollebeke in Belgium, the British officer in change of the detachment having been wounded and the other gun put out of action by a  shell, Sepoy Khudadad, though himself wounded, remained at his gun until all the other men of the gun detachment had been killed." (London Gazette, 7 December 1914)

The first V.C. to be awarded to an Indian soldier, he received his V.C. from the King, in France.

A link to Khuda Dad Khan on Mike Chapman's VC pages.

To the left is a later picture of Sepoy Khan.