Newspaper Photo of Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck and Havildar Parkash Singh
India c. 194320 x 15 in (51 x 38 cm)
ID #FF19D-PK16A-7-LZ
"H.E. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, GEN. SIR CLAUDE AUCHINLECK, SPEAKING TO HAVILDAR PARKASH SINGH, THE THIRD INDIAN V. C. OF THIS WAR. AFTER THE INVESTITURE AT WHICH THE HAVILDAR WAS DECORATED BY H. E. THE VICEROY. WITH THE HAVILDAR ARE HIS FATHER AND YOUNGER BROTHER."
Newspaper page including a large black-and-white photo of General Sir Claude Auchinleck, a soldier who spent most of his career in India, speaking to Major Parkash Singh, a Sikh Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1943. Parkash Singh was the third Indian Victoria Cross recipient of World War II. In the picture, he stands alongside his father and younger brother A crowd is present in the background. Descriptions of the photo are included in English, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, and Sindhi.
Condition: Discoloration of newspaper present, various tears along the edges and some creasing.
Material: Paper
