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Manekshaw was promoted to the rank of field marshal in January 1973, the first of only two Indian officers to be ever promoted to this rank. He retired on 15 January 1973, a date celebrated as Army Day in India. Manekshaw died on 27 June 2008 due to complications from pneumonia.
Though Manekshaw was to retire in June 1972, his term was extended by a period of six months, and was promoted to the rank of field marshal on 1 January 1973. [34] The first Indian Army officer to be so promoted.
The couple had six children over the following decade, numbering four sons and two daughters (Fali, Cilla, Jan, Sheru, Sam and Jami). Sam was their fifth child and third son. could be summarised as: Manekshaw's parents left Mumbai in 1903 for Lahore to practice medicine, where Hormizd [footnote at Hormusji:his Iranian name was Hormizd] had friends.
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I am nominating this article for A-Class review. Field Marshal Manekshaw, a recipient of Military Cross, was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and was subsequently the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal.
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This article is about Sam Manekshaw, one of the only two people to be promoted to Field Marshal rank in India, and the army commander during the 1971 war who executed what was arguably India's biggest military win ever.
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