Sardar-e-Jung

Infobox Military Award
name= Sardar-e-Jung


caption= The Sardar-e-Jung award with swords.
awarded_by= Azad Hind
status= Currently not existent.
type= Badge
eligibility=Soldiers of the Indische Legion, Indian National Army, and the Wehrmacht.
for= Valour
first_award= Second World War
last_award= Second World War
total= Unknown
posthumous= Unknown
recipients= Colonel Shaukat Hayat Malik, Captain Shanghara Singh Mann
higher= Sher-e-Hind
lower= Vir-e-HindThe Sardar-e-Jung was the second highest military decoration by the awarded by the Azad Hind Government. 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. At least two awards were made, one to Colonel Shaukat Hayat Malik for the capture of Moirang, and to Capt Shanghara Singh Mann. Capt. Mann was also awarded the Vir-e-Hind medal.

*Sher-e-Hind
*Indian National Army
*Indische Legion

External links

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