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Captain
Mateen Ahmed Ansari
Awarded the George Cross
Born 1916/12/15, Hyderabad, Deccan, India
Educated Indian Military Dehradun Academy.
Family of Hameed Ahmed Ansari and Begum Amina Ansari.
His brother was Lt Col Masud Rafat Ansari.
7th Rajput Regiment
5th Battalion
Service
1939/07/15 - Enlisted
Aug 1939, August - attached to 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
1940/08/23 - 5th/7th Rajput Rifles, Indian Army
1940/11/28 - Lieutenant
Posted to Hong Kong
1941/12/08 - Japanese enter war, invade Hong Kong
1941/12/18 - Wounded
1941/12/25 - Hong Kong fell to the Japanese
Captain Ansari was Mentioned in Despatches
Japanese PoW
1941/12/25 - Captured Hong Kong
As an Indian officer from a distinguished Hyderabad family Acting Captain M A Ansari was the object of Japanese attempts to use him to subvert the loyalty of other Indian troops.
His refusal to cooperate in 1942 led to be held in Stanley Jail, which was situated in the south of Hong Kong Island.
When transferred to the Ma Tau Chung Camp, Captain Ansari helped establish a system for aiding escapees.
In April 1943 George Kotwall, ex-3 Coy, HKVDC, tried to organize the escape of Captain Ansari from Ma Tau Chung Camp, but he was betrayed and sent with Captain Ansari to Stanley Jail, where they were starved and tortured.
Captain Anari was sentenced to death with George Kotwall and over thirty other British, Chinese and Indian prisoners. They were beheaded on the 29th October 1943.
Died
Age 27
1943/10/29
Executed by the Japanese
Loved Ones
Son of Begum H. A. Ansari, of Hyderabad, Deccan, India
Memorial
Sp. Mem. 1. E. Coll. grave 1.
Stanley Military Cemetery
Hong Kong
"RETURN UNTO LORD, WELL PLEASED WITH THY REWARD AND WELL PLEASING UNTO HIM"
Information
Gautam Hazarika
VC and GC Association
‘We Shall Auffer There’ by Tony Banham
Commonwealth War Grave Commission
KEW Files:- WO 361/1118,
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