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Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw [3] MC (3 April 1914 – 27 June 2008), also known as Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was an Indian Army general officer who was the chief of the army staff during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, and the first Indian to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur, 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.
The Waterloo Road leads from Waterloo Bridge/Black Bridge/Manekshaw Bridge, past the Military Hospital, and onto the Madras Regimental Centre. The road is part of MDR 1081, which continues past MRC, through the War Memorial, past Wellington Gymkhana Club, to Sim's Park, Coonoor , where it now starts MDR 1073 to Kotagiri .
Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Sam Manekshaw, MC (1914–2008), [8] [2] also known as "Sam Bahadur" ("Sam the Brave"), was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. [7] Commissioned into the British Indian Army on 1 February 1935 with seniority antedated to 4 February 1934, [ 9 ] Manekshaw's distinguished military career spanned four decades ...
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