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Sartaj Singh (general)

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Allegiance
  
India

Role
  
Commissioned officer

Unit
  
Regiment of Artillery

Name
  
Sartaj Singh

Rank
  
Lieutenant general

Commands held
  
Southern Command

Service/branch
  
Indian Army

Years of service
  
?–1974

Died
  
April 23, 1998


Battles/wars
  
World War II Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Awards
  
George Medal, Padma Bhushan

Battles and wars
  
World War II, Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Lieutenant General Sartaj Singh (died 23 April 1998) was a general officer of the Indian Army. He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery of the British Indian Army in 1940, and served as an anti-tank gunner in Ceylon. After completing training to serve as a gunnery staff instructor in the UK in 1947, he served as the first Indian instructor at the School of Artillery in Deolali. He served on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Congo, and commanded a division in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1972 for his outstanding services to the nation. At the time of his retirement in 1974 he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command, with the rank of lieutenant general.

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