Bumping up this thread....this man needs more salutes..
Remembering a Great and
Charismatic Indian Soldier
. . . . . .
1. Full Name –
Sam Hormusji Framji
Jamshedji Manekshaw
2. Nickname –
Sam Bahadur
3. Parents. Father – Dr. Hormusji
Manekshaw and Mother – Smt
Heerabai
4. Date and Place of Birth – 3 April
1914 – Amritsar, Punjab
5. Date and Place of death 27 Jun
2008 – Wellington, Tamil Nadu
6. Education – Schooling. Amritsar
and Sherwood College (Nainital)
7. Commission into Army – Dec 1934
from Indian Military Academy in the
first batch for Officers.
8. Commissioned in 8th Gurkha Rifles
and served from December 1934 to
June 1973
9. Ranks and Promotions in the Army
( a ) Second Lieutenant, British
Indian Army-1934
( b ) Lieutenant-1935
( c ) Captain-1940
( d ) Major-1943
( e ) Lieutenant-Colonel-1945
( f ) Colonel-1946
( g ) Brigadier-1947
( f ) Brigadier, Indian Army-1950
( g ) Major-General, Indian Army-
December 1957
( h ) Lieutenant-General-December
1963
( j ) General (COAS)-8 June 1969
( k ) Field Marshal-3 January 1973
10. Chief of Army Staff – He was the
8th Chief of the Army Staff (COAS)
11. Battles/Wars
( a ) World War II
( b ) Indo-Pakistan War of 1947
( c ) Sino-Indian War of 1962
( d ) Indo-Pakistan War of 1965
( e ) Indo-Pakistan War of 1971
12. Honours and Awards
( a ) Military Cross
( b ) Padma Bhushan
( c ) Padma Vibhushan
Sam
cheated death on a few occasions, both in a battlefield and away from it. He, however, lived on to be nonagenarian. Sam wanted to be a doctor much like his military-doctor father but ended being a Field Marshal.
62' war sam to his troops>>
"Gentlemen, I have arrived and there will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued" - During 1962 War, when he was sent to North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) to command retreating Indian forces against the Chinese force.
He perhaps had the premonition of his death. He told an attending doctor few days before his death pointing at a skin rash on his forearm that he will be dead once the rash disappears. Sure enough the rash disappeared, and so did the iconic legend.
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. He liveth. He fought. He died. For two flags and 1 Country. India!
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