People from Jhajjar: Umrao Singh, Ashok Tanwar, Swami Omanand Sarswati, Garib Das, Swami Vishnu Tirtha, Swami Indravesh, Arvind Kumar Sharma

Chapters: Umrao Singh, Ashok Tanwar, Swami Omanand Sarswati, Garib Das, Swami Vishnu Tirtha, Swami Indravesh, Arvind Kumar Sharma. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Captain Umrao Singh VC (Punjabi: (Gurmukhi), (Shahmukhi); Hindi: ) (21 November 1920 21 November 2005) was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the only non-commissioned officer in the Royal Artillery or the Royal Indian Artillery to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War, and the last survivor of only 40 Indian soldiers to be awarded the VC between 1912, when Indians first became eligible to be awarded the VC, to Indian independence in 1947. Umrao Singh, son of Mohar Singh Yadav, was born into a farming family in Palra, a small village in Jhajjar district in Haryana (then the Rohtak district of undivided Punjab), 50 km north of Delhi. He attended a local school and joined the Indian Army during World War II in November 1939. He was promoted to Havildar (Sergeant) in the Royal Indian Artillery, Indian Army in 1942. On the night of 15 December to 16 December 1944 in the Kaladan Valley, Burma (now Myanmar), Umrao Singh was a field gun detachment commander in an advanced section of the 33 Mountain Battery, 30th Mountain Regiment, Indian Artillery, serving on detachment as part of the 81st West African Division in Viscount Slim's British 14th Army, supporting the advance of the XV Corps on the Arakan. Singh's gun was in an advanced position, supporting the 8th Gold Coast Regiment. After a 90 minute sustained bombardment from 75 mm guns and mortars from the Lt-Gen Sakurai Seizo's Japanese 28th Army, Singh's gun position ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=118825