He received the award for his gallantry in helping a wounded comrade on 23 July 1944 in the vicinity of Monterchi (Perugia province) in Italy.
In Italy on 23rd July, 1944, Sowar DITTO RAM was a member of a patrol which had been ordered to occupy a hill.
On reaching the objective the patrol ran onto an enemy Schu minefield suffering casualties amounting to five men injured.
He applied a field dressing and on hearing calls for help from another Sowar who had also been wounded, he crawled forward through the minefield to assist him.
On reaching the other Sowar, whose left thigh had been shattered, he applied a field dressing to his comrade's wound.