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Lt Col A O Alexander
Lt Col AO Alexander hailed from the state of Kerala. He was commissioned in 1948 into the 2nd Travancore, part of the erstwhile Travancore State Forces. After the Independence, the Battalion was integrated into the Indian Army in April 1951 and designated as the 16th
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Captain SS Walkar MVC
Captain Shankar Shankhapan Walkar was born on 8th March 1943 in Kadgaon Village of Kolhapur district in Maharashtra. Capt SS Walkar joined the Army as a commissioned officer on 15 June 1969 at the age of 26 years. He was commissioned into 18 Madras battalion
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Lieutenant Colonel Ved Prakash Ghai MVC
Lieutenant Colonel Ved Prakash Ghai was born on 22 February 1935 in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh to Smt Dayawanti Ghai and Shri Desh Raj Ghai. He was commissioned in the Madras Regiment on 4th December 1954. During his service career Lt Col Ghai served in several
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Major Raghunath Prasad Sharma
Major Raghunath Prasad Sharma was born on 10 Dec 1938 in his native village Ahrod in Haryana. Eldest of the 8 siblings, he was academically very bright right from his childhood. He completed his post graduation from Birla College, Pilani in Rajasthan. He then went
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Lt Ram Prakash Roperia AC
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Hav P K Kamalasanan VrC
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Major Kamal Kalia SC
Major Kamal Kalia was born on 5th Jan 1958 in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Son of Shri A S Ram Kalia and Smt Asha Kalia, he had two elder sisters Lata & Indu, and one younger brother Yogesh as his siblings. Though his father originally
1994
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Havildar D Muthappan KC
Havildar Dhanaraj Muthappan hailed from Tamil Nadu. Son of Shri P Dhanaraj and Smt Smt Seethai, he got selected for the Army after completing his initial education. He was recruited to the 7 Madras Battalion of the famed Madras Regiment, a Regiment known for its
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Subedar Mayan Gopal SC
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Maj JS Pandian SC
Major John Soundra Pandian hailed from Madurai in Tamil Nadu and was born on 23 Mar 1960. He did his schooling from the esteemed Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore. It was here that the foundation of his future military career was laid. He passed out from
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Sepoy Alphonse S SC
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Lt Col Ajit Bhandarkar SC
Lieutenant Colonel Ajit Bhandarkar was born in Mumbai on 31 Dec 1960. Son of Shri U V Bhandarkar, Lt Col Ajit had two brothers, and one of them, Col Arun Bhandarkar too served in the Army. He was inclined to join the Army since his
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Naik Bahubali B Mattikallammavar
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