Name: |
Muhammad Sadiq |
Rank: |
Naik |
Service number: |
172305 |
Regiment: |
Royal Indian Army Service Corps – Force K6 – 42 Mule Coy. |
Date of death: |
28 June 1942 Aged 29 |
Place of death: |
Near Loch Alvie |
Buried Commemorated |
Kingussie Cemetery Force K6 Memorial Kingussie |
A Naik was a non-commissioned officer rank equivalent to a corporal in the British Army. Son of Allah Ditta, of Sukho, Rawalpindi, Pakistan. His death registration shows him as a single man. His usual residence is given as Sukho village, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, India. His father is given as Mustafa, a farmer, who was deceased and his mother is given as Jaiflan Bibi.
His cause of death is given as haemorrhage from a penetrating wound of the lungs, heart and venacava. His death was registered based on the information provided by the Procurator-Fiscal following the certification of his death by two doctors.
The inscriptions on the gravestone, in Arabic, reads “Ho Val Ghaffoor – He, the Forgiving One” and below from the Quran “Inna Lillahi Wa Inna Ilayhi Raji’oon – Indeed we belong to Him (God) and Indeed we return to Him.”