Maurice Ramsay, awarded an MC after leading a party of stretcher-bearers and casualties on a perilous trek through the Burmese jungle – obituary

They journeyed in darkness, under fire, and with taunts from Japanese ‘jitter parties’ designed to make them give away their position

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