Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, VrC was a senior General Officer in the Indian Army.
26 Facts About Harbaksh Singh
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Harbaksh Singh was born on 1 October 1913 in a wealthy Jat Sikh family, the youngest of seven siblings, in Badrukhan village near Sangrur, the capital of the Jind State.
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Harbaksh Singh later served in the East African campaign during World War I The Jind Infantry later was amalgamated into the Indian Army in 1952, into the Punjab Regiment.
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Harbaksh Singh attended the Ranbir High School in Sangrur before joining the Government College Lahore.
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Always good at sports, Harbaksh Singh was a part of the College Hockey team.
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Harbaksh Singh then sat for the entrance examinations to enrol into the Indian Military Academy, which had been set up the previous year.
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In March 1933, Harbaksh Singh arrived at Dehradun and joined the IMA.
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Harbaksh Singh was a brother of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army Lieutenant Colonel Gurbaksh Singh.
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Harbaksh Singh was commissioned on 15 July 1935 and started his career with a year's post-commission attachment with the 2nd battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, then stationed at Rawalpindi.
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Harbaksh Singh saw service on the North West Frontier during the Mohmand campaign of 1935.
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Harbaksh Singh took over command of Alpha company of the battalion at Razmak.
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Harbaksh Singh was evacuated to Alexandra Hospital in Singapore where he remained until the Fall of Singapore.
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Harbaksh Singh was taken Prisoner of war on 15 February 1942.
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Harbaksh Singh was among the POWs in attendance at the Farrer Park address by Gen Mohan Singh of the First Indian National Army.
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Harbaksh Singh was to be moved to the Island of Rabaul, but the ship never turned up.
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Harbaksh Singh was slated to be sent to the Death Railway but was sent to the Kluang airfield and handed over to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service instead.
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Harbaksh Singh spent the remaining years of the war as a POW in the Kluang camp.
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Harbaksh Singh was repatriated only in September 1945 after cessation of hostilities.
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Harbaksh Singh then recuperated at the Military Hospital in Ambala.
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Harbaksh Singh conducted the main battle against the raiders at Shelatang Bridge on 7 November 1947.
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Harbaksh Singh brought back the battalion to Srinagar and began to rehabilitate it.
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Harbaksh Singh led the truncated battalion, in a daring operations in which, after a series of battles, the battalion drove out the enemy from the valley.
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Brigadier Harbaksh Singh was awarded a Vir Chakra for his bravery.
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Harbaksh Singh returned to India to take over as the General Officer Commanding the 27 Infantry Division, and later as the GOC 5 Infantry Division.
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Harbaksh Singh led the Western Command successfully against the Pakistan Army along the entire border in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
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The outstanding leadership of Lt Gen Harbaksh Singh had played a key role in boosting the morale of a defeated army turning it into a striking force within just three years of the Chinese encounter.