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Additional Director General Army Education Corps: R Putarjunam [42] Judge Advocate General, Indian Army: Sandeep Kumar VSM: Additional Director General (Litigation) Indian Army: Javed Iqbal [43] Additional Director General Military Nursing Service: Ignatius Delos Flora [44] Additional Director General Strategic Communication RR Patil VSM [45]
British Indian Army generals (2 C, 268 P) C. Chiefs of Army Staff (India) ... Pages in category "Indian generals" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Major general is a two-star general officer rank in the Indian Army. It is the third-highest active rank in the Indian Army. A major general ranks above the one-star rank of brigadier and below the three-star rank of lieutenant general. The equivalent rank in the Indian Navy is rear admiral and in the Indian Air Force is air vice marshal.
General is a four-star general officer rank in the Indian Army. It is the highest active rank in the Indian Army. It is the highest active rank in the Indian Army. General ranks above the three-star rank of lieutenant general and below the five-star rank of field marshal , which is largely a war-time or ceremonial rank.
By the end of 1947, there were a total of 13 Indian major-generals and 30 Indian brigadiers, with all three army commands being led by Indian officers by October 1948, at which time only 260 British officers remained in the new Indian Army as advisers or in posts requiring certain technical abilities. [48]
In January 1949, upon the impending retirement of General Sir Roy Bucher - the IA's second C-in-C, the Government of India considered the decision to appoint a native Indian general officer to the position; up until then, Indian officers had only achieved the positions associated with the three-star rank of lieutenant general. [31]
Indian Army Indian Navy Indian Air Force Indian Coast Guard Border Roads Organisation Paramilitary forces of India Central Armed Police Forces Strategic Nuclear Command: History; Military history of India: Ranks and insignia; Army • Navy • Air Force • Coast Guard • BRO • Paramilitary forces and CAPF
In September 1915, [5] Gracey was appointed from the unattached list of the Indian Army into the 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment) with the rank of second lieutenant. With his Indian Army regiment he saw active service in Mesopotamia and Palestine and was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in 1917 and a Bar to the award in ...