Major Lil Bahadur Gurung hailed from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and was born on 18 March 1941. He got commissioned into 10 Mahar Battalion of the Mahar Regiment, an infantry regiment founded in 1941 which had a glorious history of gallantry in various operations. He
Major Raghunath Prasad Sharma was born on December 10, 1938, in Ahrod village, Haryana. The eldest of eight siblings, he displayed exceptional academic brilliance from an early age. After completing his postgraduate studies at Birla College, Pilani (Rajasthan), he chose to serve the nation and
Second Lieutenant Viney Kaul was born in August 1950 in Amritsar, Punjab. He was the youngest child of Shri Pt. Kesho Ram and Smt. Rajkumari Kaul and grew up in a close-knit family with two brothers and three sisters. His father, an affluent European Grade
Naib Subedar Gurnam Singh was born on 18th August 1935 in Bhullar village of Amritsar district, Punjab. He was the proud son of Shri Tej Singh and came from a family with a strong military tradition. Growing up in such an environment, young Nb Sub
Captain Narender Singh Ahlawat hailed from Dighal village of Jhajjar district in Haryana. Son of an army veteran Major Ran Singh and Smt Nehali Dev, Capt Narender Singh came from a military family wherein his grandfather Shri Chaudhary Sohan Singh Ahlawat too served as a
Lance Naik Raj Kumar Mahto was born on 9th Oct 1974 into a farmer’s family of Masu, a small village near Ranchi, Jharkhand (then Bihar). Son of Shri Babulal Mahto and Smt Devmani Devi, L Nk Raj Kumar had four other siblings with an elder
Naib Subedar Daulat Singh hailed from the Rolsabsar village of Fatehpur Shekhawati tehsil in the Sikar district of Rajasthan and was born in the year 1940. Son of Shri Ramkumar singh and Smt Sikori Kanwar, he joined the Indian Army on 07 Mar 1958 at