Articles by Emma Stanley

Technology

'My pride at dad's service in British Indian Army'

It was while working in the mills, that a friend who had a connection to the Royal British Legion (RBL), asked about his medals. Ghulam had "no idea" he should have received them. When they did the research, they found she should have received a Burma star, but he never got it. With the help of the RBL, and 50 years after his service ended, Ghulam received four medals - the Burma Star, the 1939-1945 Star, the Defence Medal, and the War Medal 1939–1945 - at a ceremony at Nelson Town Hall. He was also given the freedom of Nelson. When Mashuq received his OBE in 2010 - for services to young people and to community relations in Burnley and Pendle - from the then-Prince Charles, he took his dad to Buckingham Palace. "Prince Charles asked me who I was with," Mashuq said. "And I said, I'm here with my dad. And he said, is that the gentleman with the Burma Star? "It was brilliant, he'd clocked the medal."