Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36764/supplements/4900. Acting Captain Michael Allmand, Indian Armoured Corps, attached 6th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 11th June 1944 in Burma, Captain Allmand's platoon came under heavy fire when attacking the Pin Hmi Road Bridge, and on being halted by casualties, he charged on alone, killing three of the enemy. Inspired by his example his surviving men followed him and captured the position. Two days later, owing to heavy casualties among the officers, Captain Allmand took command of the company and successfully led his men to seize a ridge of high ground. Again on 23rd June, in the final assault on the railway bridge at Mogaung, he went forward alone but in charging an enemy machine-gun nest, was mortally wounded.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36764/supplements/4900. Acting Captain Michael Allmand, Indian Armoured Corps, attached 6th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 11th June 1944 in Burma, Captain Allmand's platoon came under heavy fire when attacking the Pin Hmi Road Bridge, and on being halted by casualties, he charged on alone, killing three of the enemy. Inspired by his example his surviving men followed him and captured the position. Two days later, owing to heavy casualties among the officers, Captain Allmand took command of the company and successfully led his men to seize a ridge of high ground. Again on 23rd June, in the final assault on the railway bridge at Mogaung, he went forward alone but in charging an enemy machine-gun nest, was mortally wounded.