Allegiance India Rank Lieutenant General Service/branch Indian Army | Years of service 1959 - 1997 Awards AVSM Unit Madras Regiment | |
Born 9 May 1938 (age 78)
Vikarabad, Hyderabad State ( 1938-05-09 ) Commands held Eastern Command
15 Corps Battles/wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Bangladesh Liberation War Battles and wars Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Bangladesh Liberation War | ||
Lt Gen Jameel Mahmood was the General Officer Commander-in-Chief (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command of the Indian Army between 1995 and 1997. He was killed with his wife in an Mi-17 helicopter crash in Nagaland.
Biography
He was a born in Vikarabad in 1938 and was the brother-in-law of Lt Gen (retd.) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki of the Indian Army. His son, Brigadier Ali Adil Mahmood is an armoured corps officer in the Indian Army, and was commandant of the President's Bodyguard regiment, prior to his promotion as Brigadier.
He was an alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore, India. He was commissioned into the 4th Battalion, Madras Regiment in 1959 and commanded a platoon in Sikkim during the Sino-Indian War, winning a Yudh Seva Medal for his actions. He later served as an Infantry Company Commander, Battalion GSO-1 and XO, and Instructor at the Indian Military Academy. He attended the Defence Services Staff College. He later commanded a Battalion of the Madras Regiment in Ladakh after promotion to Colonel in 1977. He was promoted to Brigadier in 1983 and thereafter became the Chief of Logistics of an Infantry Division as well as commanding officer of an Infantry brigade under XIV Corps. He was later a staff officer under the Directorate General of Military Operations and deputy commander of the 1st Armoured Division (India). He was promoted to Major General in 1988, after which he was the General Officer Commanding of the 17 Infantry Division. He served for a time as the Deputy Commandant of the Army War College, Mhow, before being promoted as Lieutenant General in 1993. He was then the Commander of the XV Corps and then promoted to the Senior Grade of Lieutenant Generals in 1995 and appointed as the GOC-in-C of the Eastern Command. He was on trip to attend a social gathering of officers under the Dimapur Corps Headquarters when his Mi-17 helicopter ran into a mechanical failure after a thunderstorm and crashed, killing him, his wife, his ADCs Major Gautam Dutta and Lieutenant Lakshman Tyagi, his orderly Naik G. Thyagarajan, his personal bodyguard Havildar S. Vasudevan, and the IAF crew manning the chopper.
His brother Major General Sultan Mahmood(retd) was in the Artillery and an alumnus of National Defence Academy(20th course). His son Major Arif Mahmood is in the Infantry, 5th Regiment of Gorkhas.