1. Company Havildar Major Piru Singh Shekhawat was an Indian Army non-commissioned officer, awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously, India's highest military decoration for gallantry.
17 Facts About Piru Singh
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In time, Piru Singh successfully occupied a Pakistani medium machine-gun post.
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Piru Singh moved out and lobbed grenades at the next enemy post.
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Piru Singh was born during the late British Raj on 20 May 1918, in the village Rampura Beri in Beri, Rajputana.
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One day, after being scolded by his class teacher for quarreling with one of his classmates, Piru Singh ran away, and never returned to school.
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Piru Singh Shekhawat was enrolled in the 10th Battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment on 20 May 1936 at Jhelum.
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Piru Singh was an outstanding sportsman, he represented his regiment in hockey, basketball and cross-country running at inter-regimental and national level championships.
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Piru Singh rushed towards a Pakistani medium machine gun post, which was causing most of the casualties, during which he suffered multiple shrapnel wounds across his body as the Pakistani defenders began rolling grenades down from the heights.
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Undeterred, Piru Singh continued to advance adopting the battle cry, "Raja Ramchandra Ki Jai".
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Piru Singh moved out of the trench and lobbed grenades at the next Pakistani post.
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On 17 July 1948, Company Havildar Major Piru Singh was posthumously awarded the India's highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra.
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South of Tithwal, 'D' Company, of which No 2831592 Piru Singh, was Havildar Major was detailed to attack and capture an enemy occupied hill feature.
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Company Havildar Major Piru Singh was then with the forward most Section of the company.
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Piru Singh was on top of the MMG position wounding the gun crew with Sten gun fire.
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Piru Singh was married and had son named Om prakash singh.
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The crude oil tanker named MT "Company Havildar Major Piru Singh, PVC" was delivered to SCI on 12 October 1984.
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An intersection called "Piru Singh Chowk" has been named after him in Yol, Himachal Pradesh.