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9 Years Long Service Medal. 49. Commonwealth Awards. 50. United Nations Awards. 51. Other Awards. Note that the Police Medals, Fire Services Medals, Correctional Services Medals and Home Guards and Civil Defence Medals are excluded from the above list. The above order of precedence of awards is as per the Indian Army.
Brij Mohan Kaul. Brij Mohan Kaul (1912-1972) was a Lieutenant General in the Indian Army. [1] He served as the Chief of General Staff during 1961–1962 and was regarded as a key architect of Indian military response to the Chinese challenge. [2] In October 1962, he was given the command of a newly raised IV Corps to counter the impending ...
2nd Bombay Grenadiers of the Indian Army in Hampton Court Camp on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902. The Grenadiers is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence British Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers.
Men of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) of the Indian Army operating alongside soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army in 2013 At the time of Indian Independence in 1947, as per the terms of the Britain–India–Nepal Tripartite Agreement, six Gorkha regiments, formerly part of the British Indian Army, became part of the Indian Army and have served ever since.
James Abbott (Indian Army officer) James Abbott in Afghan dress. (B. Baldwin, 1841) General Sir James Abbott, KCB (12 March 1807 – 6 October 1896) was an English military officer in the Bengal Army and an administrator in British India. The city of Abbottabad, in present day Pakistan, was founded by and named after him.
Indian women at the time did not mix socially or at work with men and a large part of the corps was formed from the mixed-race Anglo–Indian community. The WAC(I) had an autonomous Air Wing, which served as the Indian counterpart of the WAAF: the women operated switchboards and similar duties at airfields and air headquarters (AHQ).
Prithvi (missile) Prithvi-I (SS-150) surface-to-surface tactical ballistic missile. Strap-down inertial navigation system. 150 km (93 mi) High explosives, penetration, cluster munition, fragmentation, thermobaric, chemical weapon and tactical nuclear weapon. 1994.
Called jemadar until 1965. Field marshal (abbreviated as FM) is a five–star officer rank and the highest attainable rank in the Indian Army. Field marshal ranks immediately above general, but is not in use in the army's current structure. Awarded only twice, field marshal is a rank bestowed on generals for ceremonial purposes or during times ...