Gallabat was captured, but an enemy counterattack forced the brigade to withdraw. On 6 November, Slim launched an attack on the fort of Gallabat, with the assault spearheaded by the 3rd Royal Garhwal Rifles, under Lieutenant-Colonel S.E. ![]() The 10th Infantry Brigade was commanded by Brigadier William Slim, MC (later Field Marshal the Viscount Slim). On 23 September 1940, Bhagat's company was sent to East Africa, as part of the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade, 5th Indian Division, Sudan Defence Force under the overall command of Lieutenant General William Platt. He was posted to the 21 Field Company of Engineers at Pune in September, shortly after war began in Europe. ![]() : 286 In January 1938, Surendra Singh Bhagat died in a riding accident in Varanasi.īhagat applied himself to his studies in his final year and was commissioned in the British Indian Army on 15 July 1939 as a Second lieutenant (2Lt.) in the Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. While noted by his instructors as an intelligent all-round sportsman, he was also described as a careless student. As a gentleman cadet, Bhagat captained the academy tennis and squash teams. In June 1937, he entered the Indian Military Academy. In 1930, he entered the Royal Indian Military College, a military school in Dehradun, where he was an average student. The Victoria Cross was conferred on him for his actions in the Sudan Theatre during World War II.īhagat was an alumnus of the famous Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun.īhagat was born on 13 October 1918 in Gorakhpur, British India to Surendra Singh Bhagat, an executive engineer in the provincial government of the then United Provinces. Lieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC (14 October 1918 – ) was a general in the Indian Army and an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ![]() Gorakhpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British IndiaĬhairman of the Damodar Valley Corporation (1974-1975)
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