Mohiuddin, Mira, able seaman in the Merchant Navy.

Service documents, photographs and religious texts belonging to Mira Mohiuddin, who served as an able seaman in the Merchant Navy. See item level records for further details.

Index terms: Black and Asian seafarers; Second World War; Able Seamen; Merchant Navy

Administrative / biographical background
Mira Mohiuddin was born in Madras, India. He became a merchant seamen at Calcutta [Kolkata] in the late 1920s or early 1930s and was employed as an able seaman. He served on convoys during the Second World War, for which he received four campaign medals: the 1939-1945 Star, the Atlantic Star, the Italy Star and the War Medal 1939-1945. He died in London in 1973.