back his Adjutant. He set a magnificent example of courage and devotion to his officers' (London Gazette 13 May 1916). In effect, Lala rescued six men, including his own Adjutant (Captain E.L.E. Lindop M.C., who regrettably died of his wounds on 30 January 1916, though not before relating Lala's bravery), but the citation hardly does justice to the awful circumstances surrounding Lala's efforts. Other descriptions offer a more in-depth account, especially emphasising not only the danger from close Turkish fire, but also the terrible weather conditions which prevailed on the day. Edmund Candler, in The Sepoy reports one of Lala's officers relating that: Lala was out all day and most of the night and earned his VC a dozen times. It seemed certain death to go out … with the enemy only a hundred yards off. But he insisted on going out …. There was a freezing wind and the wounded lay in pools of rain and flooded marsh all night; some were drowned, others died of exposure. It was a typically Dogra-like act of Lala to strip himself and to make a shield of his body for his Adjutant … and the Adjutant was only one of five officers and comrades [actually six] whom Lala saved that day". No less a figure than Major General Sir George Younghusband, who commanded the 7th division, relates the events in greater detail in A Soldier's Memories of Peace and War: A heavy frontal attack was taking place across the dead flat open ground before the Turkish trenches, which were strongly held. On our left, the attack partially succeeded but all along the rest of the line it was held up at distances varying from 100 to 500 yards from the Turks. At this moment Sepoy (now Lance Naik) Lalla (sic) came across a Major in his regiment, 150 yards from the enemy line, lying completely exposed in the open and trying to bandage a grievous wound. Lalla dragged him a few yards into a very slight depression, only a few inches deep, and there bound up the Major's wounds. Whilst doing so, he heard other cries for help and sallying forth dragged four more of his comrades into the meagre shelter and bound up their wounds. Meanwhile, it had come on to rain hard and a pitiless icy wind sprang up. Then Lalla heard another voice calling for help about fifty yards