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Naik Narbahadur Thapa, AC was an Indian Army soldier who was awarded with the first ever living India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashoka Chakra for his bravery in Operation Polo. [1] He served as a soldier with the 5/5 Gorkha Rifles .
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.
The 4th Gorkha Rifles or the Fourth Gorkha Rifles, abbreviated as 4 GR, is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Indian Gorkha or Nepalese nationality, especially Magars and Gurungs hill tribes of Nepal.
Lance Naik: Ran Bahadur Gurung Indian Army: 1961 UN Operation: Congo [63] 06-Dec-1961 57 Naik: Mahabir Thapa Indian Army: 1962 UN Operation: Congo [64] 16-Dec-1961 58 Wing Commander: Jag Mohan Nath Indian Air Force: 1962 Operation Leg Horn [65] 01-Jan-1962 59 Naik: Chain Singh Indian Army: 1962 Operation Leg Horn [66] 10-Oct-1962 60 Subedar ...
Havildar Bachittar Singh and Naik Narbahadur Thapa were the first recipients of the Ashoka Chakra. Subsequent awards of the Ashoka Chakra are recognized by a bar to the medal ribbon. A recipient can be awarded the Kirti Chakra or Shaurya Chakra in addition to separate acts of gallantry.
Surya Bahadur Thapa, former five times Prime Minister of Nepal. Sagar Thapa, Nepalese footballer; Shailesh Thapa Chhetri, 28th and current Inspector General of Nepal Police; Sharmila Thapa, Nepal-born Indian television host and actress; Sher Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross; Sher Jung Thapa, Mahavir Chakra (MVC)
Naik Ram Bahadur Chhetri Assam Rifles Posthumous Naik Tek Bahadur Thapa Assam Rifles Posthumous Captain: Karni Singh Rathore: Rajputana Rifles: Major: Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair: Maratha Light Infantry: Squadron Leader Hari Nath Chaturvedi VM Indian Air Force 1983 Shri Surinder Singh Indian Civilian Brigadier Som Parkash Jhingon Infantry ...
Havildar Bachittar Singh, AC (10 January 1917 - 13 September 1948) was a soldier in Indian Army who was posthumously awarded the highest peacetime military decoration Award "Ashoka Chakra", for conspicuous bravery, indomitable spirit and supreme sacrifice; becoming the first Indian to receive this gallantry award.