Shahid-e-Bharat

Infobox Military Award
name= Shahid-e-Bharat


caption= The Shahid-e-Bharat medal.
awarded_by= Azad Hind
status= Currently not existent.
type= Medal
eligibility= Soldiers of the Indische Legion, Indian National Army, and the Wehrmacht.
for= The Fallen
first_award= Second World War
last_award= Second World War
total= Unknown
posthumous= Unknown
recipients=
higher= Vir-e-Hind
lower= Tamgha-e-Bahaduro

The Shahid-e-Bharat(Martyr for India) was a military decoration awarded by the Azad Hind Government to honour the fallen. It was awarded in gold or in silver and was only awarded with swords.First instituted by Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany, it was later also awarded to troops of the Indian National Army in South East Asia. The award could be conferred with swords for valour in combat, and without swords for non-combat awards.

ee also

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*Indian National Army
*Indische Legion

External links

*http://www.ww2awards.com/award/1193
*http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-medals/nazi6.htm
*http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1819