Indian Army

 SAM BAHADUR Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, MC (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. His military career spanned four decades and five wars, beginning with service in the British Indian Army in World War II.    https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/       Manekshaw joined the first intake of the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in 1932. He was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment. In World War II, he was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry. Following the partition of India in 1947, he was reassigned to the 8th Gorkha Rifles. Manekshaw was seconded to a planning role during the 1947 Indo-Pakistani War and the Hyderabad crisis, and as a result, he never commanded an infantry battali...

 The First Indian Chief Of Independent India      Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, byname Kipper, (born January 28, 1899, Shanivarsanthe, Coorg district, Mysore [now Kodagu district, Karnataka state], India—died May 15, 1993, Bangalore), Indian military officer and the first chief of staff of the Indian army after India became independent of Great Britain. https://indianarmy14.blogspot.com/  Cariappa was born and raised in a hilly region of what is now southwestern Karnataka state and was one of six children of an official in the British colonial administration of India. He was educated in Indian schools and at the Presidency College in Madras (now Chennai) and was described as being an active student who was interested in tennis and field hockey. Cariappa received military training during World War I (1914–18) but did not serve any active duty. After the end of the war, Indian politicians began demanding that the British start incorporating Indian officers into the ...