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Rank Pay is a scheme implemented by the Rajiv Gandhi led Indian National Congress (I) Government in 1986, in the wake of 4th Central Pay Commission (4CPC), that reduced the basic-pay, or grade pay, of seven armed officers ranks of 2nd Lieutenant, Lieutenant, captain, majors, lt-colonel, colonels, and brigadiers, and their equivalent in the Air Force and the Navy by fixed amounts designated as ...
The British Army in the Far East 1941-45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-790-5. Khan, Yasmin. The Raj At War: A People's History of India's Second World War (Random House India, 2015); published in US and UK as India At War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War (Oxford U.P. 2015) L, Klemen (2000).
Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
During the Second World War (1939–1945), India was a part of the British Empire. British India officially declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939. [1] India, as a part of the Allied Nations, sent over two and a half million soldiers to fight under British command against the Axis powers.
Lentaigne joined British Indian Army as second lieutenant in October 1918 in 4th Gurkha Rifles.He fought in the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919. During the Second World War, he commanded a battalion during the 1942 Burma Campaign and was later given command of 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade.
Brigadier Bernard Campbell Fletcher (Apr 1941 – Jul 1942) Brigadier William H. Langran (Jul 1942 – Jan 1944) Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph A. Salomons (Jan – Feb 1944) Brigadier Geoffrey Evans (Feb 1944) Brigadier Joseph A. Salomons (Feb 1944 – Mar 1945) Lieutenant-Colonel K. Bayley (Mar 1945) Brigadier Hubert G.L. Brain (Mar – Aug 1945) HQ
Immediately after the war ended, it was in Greece, but returned to India later in 1945. In 1947 the division became the nucleus of the Punjab Boundary Force under Major-General T.W. Rees . [ 10 ] The Boundary Force was established on 17 July 1947, with its headquarters at Lahore.
Second Lieutenant: British Indian Army: 2 February 1928 [6] Lieutenant: British Indian Army: 2 May 1930 [31] [32] Captain: British Indian Army: 2 February 1937 [33] Major: British Indian Army: 1940 (acting) 22 September 1941 (temporary) [34] 8 February 1943 (war-substantive) [35] 2 February 1945 (substantive) [36] Lieutenant-Colonel: British ...