Second Lieutenant Prakash Narayan Shridhar Kotnis was born on 10 March 1939 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to Shri SN Kotnis. He received his school education at Balmohan Vidyamandir, Mumbai. Service to the nation was a strong tradition in the Kotnis family. Two close relatives had served
Gunner Sujan Singh hailed from a family of Gurdaspur in Punjab, which had migrated from Sialkot in Pakistan during partition. He had five brothers as his siblings and grew up in a family of farmers. Like many youths in Punjab, he was also inclined to
Major Inderjeet Singh Babbar hailed from Jammu and was born on 05 Sep 1969. Son of an Army veteran Col GS Babbar and Smt Harbans Kaur, he always wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and don the military uniform. Eventually he joined