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Francis Dias
Lieutenant-General Francis Tiburtius Dias, PVSM, AVSM, VrC (14 October 1934 – 16 January 2019) was an Indian Army officer, who was involved in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Early days Dias was born in 1934 into a Goan family having Portuguese ancestry. He is the elder brother of Cardinal Ivan Dias. Military career Francis T. Dias joined the Gorkha Regiment in 1954 as a second lieutenant. Vir Chakra The citation for the Vir Chakra Vir Chakra (pronunciation: ʋiː ɾ a tʃ a kɾa) is an Indian wartime military bravery award presented for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of the enemy on the battlefield and is third in precedence in wartime gallantry awards and ... awarded to him reads: Lieutenant Colonel Francis Tiburtius Dias was commanding a battalion of 11th Gorkha Rifles during the operations against Pakistan in the Eastern Sector. On 12 December 1971, he was ordered to capture a well prepared position held by an enemy infantry battalion. Again, on 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Army Ranks
The Indian Army, the land component of the Indian Armed Forces, follows a certain hierarchy of rank designations and insignia derived from the erstwhile British Indian Army (BIA). History 1947–1950 Upon the Indian Independence Act 1947, establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a Dominion of India, 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 Monarchy of the United Kingdom, King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding insignia. In the Army's case, the service retained its pre-independence insignia, comprising the Tudor Crown (heraldry), Tudor Crown and four-pointed Order of the Bath, Bath Star, called the ''pip''. 1950–present In May 1949, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Mountbatten, the inaugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
