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Upon the establishment of India's independence in 1947, the country became a dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations.Nevertheless, the armed forces, namely, the British Indian Army (IA), the Royal Indian Navy (RIN) and the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF) - under the helm of King George VI as the Commander-in-Chief - retained their respective pre-independence ranks and corresponding ...
Senior three-star rank officers in the armed forces who are in the C-in-C (Commanding-in-Chief) grade or vice chiefs of staff, holding the rank of Lieutenant General or equivalent rank Vice Chief of the Army Staff: Lieutenant General N. S. Raja Subramani: Army commanders (General officers commanding-in-chief) List of army commanders
Rank Name Photo Decorations Reference General Officer Commanding I Corps. Strike One Corps. Lieutenant General: Sanjay Mitra AVSM [62] General Officer Commanding II Corps. Kharga Corps. Rajesh Pushkar VSM [63] General Officer Commanding III Corps. Spear Corps. Abhijit S Pendharkar AVSM, YSM [64] General Officer Commanding IV Corps. Gajraj Corps ...
Rank comparison chart of armies and land forces of Asian states. ... Indian Army [8. ... Comparative army officer ranks of the Americas;
The Indian Army has recruited Gurkha soldiers from Nepal since the 19th century and separate Gurkha regiments were created for them, the Gurkha soldiers got same ranks as other Indian soldiers; the modern Nepal Army officially used the Indian Army rank system for their soldiers in the 1960s through a series of reorganizations and the JCO term ...
All three branches issue Commendations Cards at the level of the highest officer (Chief of the Army Staff, Chief of the Naval Staff and Chief of the Air Staff). Additionally, Chief of Defence Staff also issues the Commendation Cards. The awards at lower levels seem to vary between services. [2] [3] [4]
The Army Aviation Corps units are designated as 'Squadrons'. Each squadron generally consists of two Reconnaissance (Recce) and Observation Flights. R & O Flights might be part of squadrons or operate independently and do not have a parent squadron (designated by an (I) in their name).
At the end of hostilities in 1945, the Indian Army's officer corps included Indian Medical Service officer Hiraji Cursetji as its sole Indian major-general, one IMS brigadier, three Indian brigadiers in combatant arms and 220 other Indian officers in the temporary or acting ranks of colonel and lieutenant-colonel. [39]