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22 unusual facts about Indian Army


Austin Timeous Miller

He entered the Indian Army on 28 August 1910 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Lancers (Hodson’s Horse), and was advanced to Lieutenant in December 1911.

Constitution of Pakistan

The civil disobedience movement later developed into a war of national liberation fully backed by the Indian Army.

Ernest Smythe

With the Japanese declaration of war against the British Empire during World War II, Smythe was drafted into the Indian Army as an emergency commission in February 1942, holding the rank of 2nd Lieutenant.

Ernest Meade Smythe (25 March 1904 – 9 July 1975) was an English cricketer and Indian Army officer.

Firozpur

Today it is the headquarters of a divsion of the Western Corps of the Indian Army.

Govindappa Venkataswamy

He served with the Indian Army as a physician during 1945-48 when he was discharged due to rheumatoid arthritis.

Harry Frederick Whitchurch

Whitchurch was 28 years old, and a surgeon captain in the Indian Medical Service, Indian Army during the Chitral Expedition of 1895 when, on the 3rd March, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

Hyderabad Golf Club

It is managed by Indian Army and the holes are named according to historical figures and events.

Jhelum Express

Moreover, the train is strategically important; as is connects the Headquarters of the Southern Command of the Indian Army, Pune, with an important border city.

Lalitha Kumaramangalam

She is also the niece of the late Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army, General P.P. Kumaramangalam, PVSM, DSO.

Laxminagar Colony, Mehdipatnam

Bordering this colony on its Western side is a large Indian Army establishment.

Lord William Paget

They had several children, including William Henry Paget, a Major-General in the Indian Army.

More plains

The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) of Indian Army is now in the process of converting the road to two lanes - one in either direction.

Officers Training Academy

The Officers Training Academy, Chennai (OTA) is a training establishment of the Indian Army that trains officers for the Short Service Commission.

Royal Enfield Bullet

In 1949, the Indian Army ordered Royal Enfield Bullets for border patrol use and the company decided to open a factory in Madras.

Rupert Penry-Jones

On BBC 1's Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast in August 2010, it was revealed that Penry-Jones's maternal grandfather, William, had served with the Indian Army Medical Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino and that his earlier ancestors had a long-standing connection with the Indian Army.

Shankar Vihar

Shankar Vihar is a residential complex for the serving Officers and their family of Indian Army, Indian Air Force & Indian Navy, provided by the Government of India.

Sulagna Panigrahi

Her father is in the Indian Army, mother a housewife and younger sister studies in Xavier's Institiute of Communication, Mumbai.

Vairengte

Counterinsurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) is a training and research establishment of the Indian Army specializing in unconventional warfare, especially counter-insurgency and guerrilla warfare.

Valmik Thapar

Pran Nath Thapar fifth Chief of Army Staff of the Indian army was his great uncle.

Walter Shuldham

He was seconded (on probation) to the Indian Army as a Lieutenant on the 15 March 1917 and was posted to the 104th Wellesley's Rifles.

When Heaven Fell

The ranks within the legions resemble those of the Indian or Pakistan Army.


1st Wessex Artillery

With a reformed Brigade Ammunition Column, CCXV Bde moved in October 1916 to Basra to take part in the Mesopotamian campaign, and on 8 December 1916 it joined 3rd (Lahore) Division of the Indian Army on the Tigris front.

Arun Khetarpal

Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, PVC (14 October 1950 – 16 December 1971) born in Pune, Maharashtra, was an officer of the Indian Army and a posthumous recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for valour in face of the enemy.

Avadi

The major military establishments having divisions in Avadi are the Indian Air Force, Indian Army, Heavy Vehicles Factory (HVF), EFA-Engine Factory,Avadi, Combat Vehicles Research and Development Establishment (CVRDE), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indian Navy, Central Vehicle Depot (CVD), The Ordnance Depot OD, Unfit Vehicles park UVP and the Ordnance Clothing Factory (OCF).

Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal along with Premlata Agarwal and a group of ace climbers, which includes Mt. Everest summiteers have quietly arrived in Uttarkashi and carried out relief and rescue operations in the remotest high altitude villages of the Himalayas that have been ravaged in the 2013 North India floods, where even the Indian Army jawans couldn't reach.

BEL Battle Field Surveillance Radar

In the aftermath of the Kargil War, and with the heightened levels of infiltration, the Indian Army started looking at electronic sensors to augment the surveillance capabilities.

Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography

Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography is an autobiographical book by Indian General Vijay Kumar Singh.

Cummerbund

Similar to the cummerbund, a cummerband is an accessory to the dress uniform used extensively in both the modern Indian Army and Pakistan Army.

Fauji

Fauji (Devanagari: फौजी, Nastaliq: فوجی, translation: "Soldier") (1989) was a TV series following the training of an Indian Army commando regiment that aired on India's national channel DD National in 1989.

Gandhi Global Family medals and awards

The recipients of the Mahatma Gandhi Award are the Indian Air Force and Indian Army for their work of rehabilitation and resettlement of Jammu and Kashmir State after the devastating 2005 Kashmir earthquake and Jain Acharya Samrat Dr Shiv Muni ji Maharaj of Sthanakvasi for promoting universal peace and brotherhood.

George Stringer

During the effort to relieve the besieged garrison of British and Indian Army troops at Kut-el-Amara.

HAL Dhruv

The Dhruv first flew in 1992; but development was prolonged due to multiple factors: the Indian Army's requirement alterations, budget restrictions, and sanctions placed on India following the 1998 Pokhran-II Indian nuclear testing.

Hilary Hook

Hook was born on 26 September 1917 and was educated at Canford School, Dorset, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, after which he was commissioned into the Unattached List of the Indian Army on 27 January 1938.

Ilyas Kashmiri

During the mid-1990s, Kashmiri and Nasrullah Mansoor Langrial were near Poonch when they were seized by the Indian Army and sent to prison, where he would spend the next two years before escaping and returning to Pakistan.

Indar Jit Rikhye

Indar Jit Rikhye (July 30, 1920 – May 21, 2007) was a major general in the Indian army who served as military adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant in the 1960s.

Indian Army during World War II

The Indian Army fought in Ethiopia against the Italian Army, in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia against both the Italian and German Army, and, after the Italian surrender, against the German Army in Italy.

Indian special forces training school

Indian army conducts joint special forces exercise and training with the special forces of countries such as US, Sri Lanka, Russia, France, Bangladesh, Thailand at this school.

Joseph Fox the younger

1- Emily (aft Mar 1792 – Newton Abbott, South Devon, 8 Mar 1866, ) married Philipp Sleeman (1791/2-31 Mar 1869), brother of Maj General William Henry Sleeman, Governor of Lucknow, who joined the Indian Army in 1809 and wrote the History of the Thugs (hired gangs of murderers).

Mohammed Amin Naik

He has served as Design Engineer civil and Garrison Engineer with Eastern Naval Command, Vizag, and was in Army Head Quarters Indian Army as General Staff Officer, DDG PPO, Additional Director General Personals Engineers and was also as Assistant Chief of the Integrated Defense TRIDOC with Head Quarters Integrated Defense Staff.

Mukul Deva

Mukul was commissioned in the Sikh Light Infantry of the Indian Army in 1981 where he served as an officer until 1996.

Padhiana

Although as many as 282 Army personnel, hailing from Padhiana village, have shown their valour in the World War I and World War II and more than 35 youth from the village still serve in the Indian Army, while some have joined the Indian Air Force has been ignored by the administration.

Padmavathy Bandopadhyay

She is the second woman in the Indian armed forces to be promoted to a three-star rank (after Indian Army's Lt. General Punita Arora).

Pistol Auto 9mm 1A

The Pistol Auto 9mm 1A is widely used by Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, Central Armed Police Forces, and other Law enforcement agencies such as State Police forces, as a service weapon.

QF 2.95-inch Mountain Gun

The weapon was not adopted by the British Army or the Indian Army, which used the BL 10 pounder Mountain Gun and later the BL 2.75 inch Mountain Gun, but it was used from 1901 by the defence forces of some British African colonies as part of the Royal West African Frontier Force (WAFF).

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Rathore passed out of the National Defence Academy, and since served in the Indian Army where he retired as a Colonel in 2013, before joining politics.

Sikh Reference Library

On May 23, 2000 George Fernandes wrote to the SGPC Secretary, Gurbachan Singh Bachan, and acknowledged that the Indian Army had taken taken the books and other documents from the Sikh Reference Library and handed them over to the CBI.

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

It stars James Mason in the title role, was directed by Henry Hathaway, and was based on the book Rommel by Brigadier Desmond Young, who served in the Indian Army in North Africa.

Udey Chand

After retiring from Indian Army he joined Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar as a coach and rendered his services from 1970 to 1996.

Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia

Let Gen Vijay Kumar AhluwaliaPVSM, AVSM**, VSM, YSM, is serving in the Indian Army and is presently the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Central Command.