3rd Carabiniers Prince of Wales’s Dragoon Guards KIA Imphal 1944 WW2 Medal Group

Waud’s service placed him in the midst of one of the most critical campaigns of the war in the East—theBattle of Imphal, which began inMarch 1944 as part of the JapaneseU-Go offensive. It was during this critical period of the campaign thatTrooper Waud was killed in action on 4 May 1944, aged33, in theBurma theatre.