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Mateen Ansari, the Glossary

Captain Mateen Ahmed Ansari GC (15 December 1916 – 29 October 1943) of the 5th Battalion, 7th Rajput Regiment, in the Indian Army during World War II, and member of the British Army Aid Group.^[1]

25 relations: Battle of Hong Kong, British Army Aid Group, British Indian Army, British Raj, Captain (armed forces), Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Empire of Japan, George Cross, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Hyderabad State, Indian Army during World War II, Indian National Army, Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, List of George Cross recipients, Ma Tau Chung Camp, Posthumous award, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Princely state, Rajput Regiment, Stanley Military Cemetery, Stanley Prison, The London Gazette, United Kingdom.
20th-century executions by Japan
Burials at Stanley Military Cemetery
Indian Army personnel killed in World War II
Indian people executed abroad
Indian prisoners of war
Indian recipients of the George Cross
Indian torture victims
People executed by Japan by decapitation

Battle of Hong Kong

The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.

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British Army Aid Group

The British Army Aid Group (B.A.A.G.) was a para-military organisation for British and Allied forces in southern China during the Second World War.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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George Cross

The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hyderabad

Hyderabad (ISO) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State or Hyderabad Deccan was a kingdom, country, and princely state in the Deccan with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.

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Indian Army during World War II

The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.

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Indian National Army

The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj; 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire.

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.

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List of George Cross recipients

The George Cross (GC) is the second highest award of the United Kingdom honours system.

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Ma Tau Chung Camp

Ma Tau Chung Camp was an internment camp in Ma Tau Chung, Hong Kong during the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong during World War II.

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Posthumous award

A posthumous award is granted after the recipient has died.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Rajput Regiment

The Rajput Regiment is one of the oldest infantry regiments of the Indian Army, originating in 1778 with the raising of the 24th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry.

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Stanley Military Cemetery

Stanley Military Cemetery is a cemetery located near St. Stephen's Beach in Stanley, Hong Kong.

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Stanley Prison

Stanley Prison (c. January 1937, previously known as Hong Kong Prison at Stanley) is one of the six maximum security facilities in Hong Kong.

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateen_Ansari

Also known as Mateen Ahmed Ansari, Matreen Ahmed Ansari, Sepoy ansari.