16 Stories Of The Indian Army Heroes Will Make You Proud! Heroes are not born with a special power, they are ordinary people like us but do extraordinary things when the situation demands. Similarly, our brave Indian army soldiers have proved it time and again. There are lots of people who say bad things about our defence force, there is no surprise that we do have bad apples in our defence forces, but that is not we are going to talk in this article. This article is dedicated to the real heroes, soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country and its people.
1. Captain Anuj Nayyar
Anuj Nayyar (August 28, 1975 – July 7, 1999) was an officer of the 17 Jat Regiment of the Indian Army, who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India’s second highest gallantry award, for exemplary valour in combat during operations in the Kargil War in 1999.
2. Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair
Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair (popularly known as “NJ” ) was one of the outstanding and decorated officers of the Indian Army. Nair commissioned into 16 Maratha Light Infantry on 18 June 1971. In 1993, 16 Maratha Light Infantry was deployed in Nagaland. 20 Dec 1993 while heading an advance party of the battalion, his convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels. Col NJ Nair displayed indomitable courage in leading the attack personally to break the ambush and sacrificed his life defending his men. For this supreme act of valour, he was conferred the ‘Ashoka Chakra’.
3. Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
Brigadier Kuldip Singh MVC, VSM (born 22 November 1940) is a retired officer in the Indian Army.[1] He is known for his heroic leadership in the famous Battle of Longewala, for which he was awarded Maha Vir Chakra by the Government of India.
4. Gurbachan Singh Salaria
Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria, PVC (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਲਾਰੀਆ; born 29 November 1935; Gurdaspur, Punjab – 5 December 1961) is a military war hero, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest wartime military award. In the 1988 television serial Param Vir Chakra by Chetan Anand, Captain G.S. Salaria was played by actor Brando Bakshi.
5. Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat
Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat was an Indian soldier who won the Maha Vir Chakra posthumously at the Battle of Nuranang.
6. Captain Vikram Batra
Captain Vikram Batra, PVC (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded with the Param Vir Chakra,[2] India’s highest and prestigious award for valour, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War inKashmir between India and Pakistan.
7. Arun Kumar Vaidya
This Maha Vir Chakra awardee was part of the action during the 1965 war with Pakistan at the Battle of Chawinda where the first Armored Division of the enemy was destroyed.
8. Nand Singh
During World War 2, Nand Singh led his troops up a steep ridge in Burma and captured major trenches despite carrying multiple injuries.
9. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
Sandeep Unnikrishnan (Malayalam:സന്ദീപ് ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണൻ) (15 March 1977 – 28 November 2008) was an officer in theIndian Army serving in the elite Special Action Group of the National Security Guards. He was killed in action during theNovember 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peace time gallantry award, on 26 January 2009.
10. Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla
Captain Mahendra Nath Mulla was an officer of the Indian Navy and the captain of the INS Khukri, who died when his ship was sunk during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Mahendra Nath Mulla was born on 15 May 1926, in Uttar Pradesh and was commissioned in the Indian Navy on 1 May 1948.
11. Lt. Navdeep Singh
Lieutenant Navdeep Singh was a Ghatak Platoon Commander of 15 Maratha Light Infantry regiment in the Indian Army. He led an operation to ambush 17 well-trained and armed terrorists who infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir state. He killed 4 of the terrorists and brought an injured team member to safety before succumbing to fatal injury from close range. He was posthumously conferred the highest peacetime gallantry award of India Ashoka Chakra by President of India on the 63rdRepublic Day.
12. Lieutenant Susheel Khajuria
Lt Khajuria, pictured, died after taking bullets in a heroic gun battle with militants at Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir.
13. Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon
Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, PVC (17 July 1943 – 14 December 1971) was an officer of the Indian Air Force. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, in recognition of his lone defence ofSrinagar Air Base against a PAF air raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He is the only member of the Indian Air Force to be so honoured.
14. Sanjay Kumar
Naib Subedar Sanjay Kumar, PVC (b. 3 March 1976) is an Indian Army soldier, a Junior Commissioned Officer and recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military award.
15. Captain Saurabh Kalia
Captain Saurabh Kalia (1976 – 1999) was an officer of the Indian Army who was killed during the Kargil War while being held as a prisoner of war by the Pakistani security forces. He along with five other soldiers of his patrolling team was captured alive and kept in captivity where they were tortured, then killed. His ear drums were pierced with hot iron rods, eyes punctured and genitals cut off during torture by the Pakistani Army.
16. Yogendra Singh Yadav
Subedar Yogendra Singh Yadav PVC is a soldier and a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian army. He was awarded the highest Indian military honour, Param Vir Chakra for his actions during the Kargil War on 4 July 1999.
