Captain Ramesh Chandra Bakshi hailed from New Delhi and was born on 25 July 1941. Son of Shri KD Bakshi, he joined the Army after completing his initial education. He passed out of the Training Academy on 17 Dec 1961 as Second Lieutenant at the
Guardsman Dambar Bahadur Chhetri hailed from Lapsibot village of Pallo Nawakot district in Nepal and was born on 4th April 1945. Son of Shri Dina Nath Chhetri, he joined the Indian Army after completing his initial schooling on 04 Apr 1963 at the age of
Major Greesh Chandra Verma hailed from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh was born on 29 August 1939. Son of Shri SP Verma, he joined the Army after completing his initial education. He passed out of the Training Academy on 18 Dec 1960 as Second Lieutenant at
Major Sat Prakash Varma hailed from Jatheri village in Sonipat district of present-day Haryana (Erstwhile undivided Punjab) and was born on 09 Mar 1942. Son of Shri Dip Chand Varma, he joined the Army after completing his education. He was commissioned as Second Lieutenant into
Sqn Ldr Aspi Kekobad Bhagwagar was commissioned into the Indian Air Force on 30 Nov 1956 in the flying stream of the IAF. He got trained as a fighter pilot and graduated as part of 70th Pilots' Course. After completing his flying training, he served
Flight Lieutenant Satish Bharadwaj hailed from Delhi and was born in the year 1940. He studied from Modern School Barakhamba in New Delhi. He was very quite passionate about joining the Air Force and worked at realizing his dream. Eventually, he got selected for the prestigious
Flight Lieutenant Vijay Madhav Joshi hailed from Pune in Maharshtra and was born on 28th March 1940. Son of Shri Madhav Krishna Joshi and Smt Nalini Joshi, Flt Lt Vijay Madhav Joshi had two sisters Mohini and Vidya as his siblings. In his early childhood
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
Lt Col MV Gore hailed from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. He was enrolled in the 4th Gwalior Infantry and took part in World War II. The 4th Gwalior Infantry later joined the 14 Kumaon battalion along with the Indore Infantry (later 15 Kumaon) in 1953.
Naik Ram Kumar hailed from Kanina-Khas village of Mahendargarh district in Haryana and was born on 1st July 1938. Son of Shri Gugan Ram and Smt Dana Devi, he joined the army after completing his school education on 06 September 1957 at the age of
Major Baljit Singh Randhawa hailed from Isapur village in the Amritsar district of Punjab and was born on 11 November 1934. Son of Shri R S Randhawa, Maj Baljit Singh was commissioned into 4 Rajput of the famed Rajput regiment known for its valour and
Major Surinder Nath Tandon hailed from Village Shankar, Tehsil Nakodar, in Jalandhar district, Punjab. He was born on August 31, 1928, in Meerut to Shri Balwant Raj Tandon, an esteemed ICS officer and alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford (UK), and Smt Shakuntala Tandon. Coming from