NAM.1965-04-64-214

Photograph of the presentation of the George Cross to Shrimati Brahmi Devi, the widow of Naik Kirpa Ram GC, by HE The Viceroy, Lord Wavell at New Delhi on 1 Jan 1946. She was escorted at the ceremony by Lt Col R W Niven, who was Commandant of the Battalion when her husband won the award. Associated with the 8th Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles. From a photograph album of 328 photographs, 1938-1974 (c). The album was originally compiled by Capt Hubert Gervais Lennox Brain, 6th Royal Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Instructor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1938. Presented by the Officers of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, to The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, to give Cadets who wished to join the Indian Army an idea of life in the regiment.