About Ditto Ram
Lived 1915 – 1944 (aged 28–29). Ditto Ram was a military personnel.
Sowar Ditto Ram, GC (1915 – 23 July 1944) was a soldier of the 21st King George V's Own Horse, British Indian Army, who was posthumously awarded the George Cross in the Second World War. He received the award for his gallantry in helping a wounded comrade on 23 July 1944 in the vicinity of Monterchi (Arezzo province) in Italy.
Ditto Ram, who was also known as Ram Ditto, was born in Gehrota, Gurdaspur in India, the son of Sawan Singh and Phoolan.
Citation Notice of the award of the George Cross to Ram was published in The London Gazette of 13 December 1945.
Memorials Ram's name is inscribed on the Memorial Gate with other Commonwealth George Cross awardees from the Second World War, and on the Cassino Memorial. A plaque in Piazza Umberto I in Monterchi town centre commemorates Sowar Ditto Ram, Lieutenant St John Young and Sowar Niru Chand, all fallen in the same minefield near Casa Tocci.
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Who was Ditto Ram?
Indian soldier
When was Ditto Ram born?
Ditto Ram was born in 1915.
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Ditto Ram died in 1944.
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Ditto Ram was a military personnel.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Ditto Ram. https://biography.guide/ditto-ram/
MLA: "Ditto Ram." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/ditto-ram/.
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