Azad Hind Medals

[Greg Domian]

Neck order without swords...

[Greg Domian]

Detail...

[RonR]

Greg,

Marvelous!

[joyban]

Hi

Were any of these awarded during the WWII ? or only awarded after the WWII ?

Regards

[byterock]

Yes and yes. No idea on the numbers though.

[McCulloh]

1961? I thought it was 1946. Souval wrote that the Briitsh MPs had arrived at his shop and took the die for these medals-but they did not realize they only had one half of the device. The "Stempel" for these lies somewhere deep in the archives of the MI archive somewhere in London.
Prof. Ed Haynes has done extensive and deep research on these medals-and met not a few of the INA over the years. His forthcoming book has a LOT of information regarding these medals.

[NickG]

Here's mine

Thoughts on this one? Ribbon is shaped wrong...but medal certainly looks old with plenty of patina... Sorry don't have an image of the back readily available...
Thanks
Nick

[Spitfire]

does anyone know when Ed's book is coming out?

thanks, Al R

[PJR]

Those are super awards, any more thoughts out there?

[JeremyJ]

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Fascinating items! Really an interesting thread of very unique awards/history to match.

Thanks for posting.

Jeremy

[RonR]

does anyone know when Ed's book is coming out?

thanks, Al R

Has the book been published?

[McCulloh]

yes- although as far as I know it is now in the "good luck if you can find it" catagory. The Indian army bought a bunch of the 1st edition.

[longislandercjv]

I don't collect medals, but I must say that that Ron's collection of these Azad Hind
awards is INCREDIBLE. It must have taken many years to acquire.