Havildar Shere Thapa hailed from Nepal and was born on 27 Dec 1928. After completing initial education, he joined the J and K Regiment Special Force on 27 Dec 1945 at the age of 17 years. He served with the J and K Regiment Special
Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta hailed from Delhi. Son of Shri Shadi Lal Palta, he got selected to join the Army after completing his school education. He got commissioned into the 4 Sikh battalion of the Sikh Regiment, an infantry regiment known for its dauntless soldiers
Major Mahander Singh Chaudhary was born on 7 May 1930 in Dubaldhan Majra village, located in the Rohtak division of Jhajjar district in Haryana. He was the son of Chaudhary Partap Singh, a PCS officer in the erstwhile joint Punjab, and Smt. Sahib Kaur, a
2nd Lieutenant Gopal Krishna Venkatesa Prasanna Rao hailed from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and was born on 15 Oct 1940. Son of Dr TAGK Rao, he did his initial schooling in Board High School at Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Later he studied from PSG Arts