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Raizada Major Madan Lal Vaid (Urdu: رایزاده میجر مدن لال وید) was an officer in the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles regiment of the British Indian Army until the Independence of India in 1947, and subsequently first in the Jammu-Kashmiri Army and then in the Indian Army (after the Jammu-Kashmiri Army was integrated into it). For his bravery in World War II, he was awarded the Military Cross.
Second World War
He deployed in the Middle Eastern combat theater during WWII. He won the Military Cross for combat bravery Syria in July 1941, in the fight for the Jebel Mazar mountain close to Mount Hermon, during the fierce Syria-Lebanon campaign. Jebel Mazar (Latitude 34.61667N, Longitude 38.28333E) is a 5,000-foot (1,500 m) mountain dominating the Damascus-Beirut route that the enemy was using very effectively to prevent British Commonwealth (British, Australian and Indian) troops from advancing to Beirut. His actions as recorded in the medal commendation (from the British National Archives, verbatim without corrections):