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Brigadier General Sher Jung Thapa Magar received Mahavir Chakra and Lieutenant Colonel Dhan Singh Thapa Magar won Paramvir Chakra, the highest gallantry award, while serving Indian Army. Similarly, Dipprasad Pun Magar, a Nepalese Sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles (British Army), was the first Nepali winner of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross ...
On 25–26 June 1944, at the age of twenty eight, Magar was an acting subedar of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in the Indian Army during World War II.He was in command of a small isolated hill post at Bishenpur, India when the Japanese army attacked in force.
The Mahar Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army.Although it was originally intended to be a regiment consisting of troops from the Mahar community of Maharashtra, today the Mahar Regiment is composed of different communities from mainly states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar.
1st Gorkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment), often referred to as the 1st Gorkha Rifles, or 1 GR in abbreviation, is the most senior Gorkha Infantry regiment of the Indian Army, comprising Gurkha soldiers of Indian Gorkha or Nepalese nationality, especially Magars and Gurungs, hill tribes of Nepal.
Lalbahadur Thapa Magar VC (Nepali: लालबहादुर थापामगर; February 1906 – 19 October 1968) was a Nepali Gorkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Karanbahadur Rana was born at Mangalthan Gulmi, Litung, in the Baglung district of Nepal, and was a member of the Magar people.During the First World War he joined the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles of the British Indian Army, and was posted to the regiment's 2nd battalion, then serving with the 75th Division in Palestine.
The 4th Gorkha Rifles or the Fourth Gorkha Rifles, abbreviated as 4 GR, is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Indian Gorkha or Nepalese nationality, especially Magars and Gurungs hill tribes of Nepal. The Fourth Gorkha Rifles has five infantry battalions.
Dhan Singh Thapa was born to Padam Singh Thapa on 28 April 1928, in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.He joined the 1st Battalion, 8 Gorkha Rifles on 28 August 1949, [2] and received a temporary commission as a second lieutenant on 21 February 1951, with promotion to lieutenant on 21 February 1953. [5]