List of Param Vir Chakra Awardees

List of Param Vir Chakra Awardees


Name 

Regiment 

Date

Major Somnath Sharma

4th Battalion, Kumaon  Regiment

3 Nov, 1947,  Posthumous

Second Lieutenant  Rama Raghoba Rane

Bombay Engineers 

8, April, 1948

Naik Jadu Nath Singh 

1st Battalion, Rajput  Regiment

6 February, 1948,  Posthumous

Company Havildar Major  Piru Singh Shekhawat

6th Battalion, Rajputana  Rifles

18 July, 1948, 

Posthumous

Lance Naik Karam Singh 

Sikh Regiment 

13 October, 1948

Captain Gurbachan  Singh Salaria

3/1 Gorkha Rifles 

5 December, 1961

Major Dhan Singh  Thapa

1st Battalion, 8th Gorkha  Rifles

21 October, 1962

Subedar Joginder Singh 

1st Battalion, Sikh  Regiment

23 October, 1962,  Posthumous


Major Shaitan Singh 

13th Battalion, Kumaon  Regiment

18 November,  1962,Posthumous

Company Quarter  Master Havildar Abdul  Hamid

4th Battalion, The  Grenadiers

10 September, 1965,  Posthumous

Lieutenant-Colonel  

Ardeshir Burzorji  Tarapore

17th Poona Horse 

11 September, 1965,  Posthumous

Lance Naik Albert Ekka 

14th Battalion, Brigade of  the Guards

4 December, 1971,  Posthumous

Flying Officer Nirmal Jit  Singh Sekhon

No.18 Squadron, Indian Air  Force

14 December, 1971,  Posthumous

2/Lieutenant Arun  Khetarpal

17 Poona Horse 

16 December, 1971,  Posthumous

Major Hoshiar Singh 

3rd Battalion, The  Grenadiers Regiment

17 December, 1971

Naib Subedar Bana  Singh

Jammu and Kashmir Light  Infantry

23 May, 1987

Major Ramaswamy  Parameshwaran

8th Battalion, Mahar  Regiment

25 November, 1987,  Posthumous

Captain Manoj Kumar  Pandey

1st Battalion, 11th Gorkha  Rifles

3 July, 1999,  Posthumous

Grenadier Yogendra  Singh Yadav

18th Battalion, The  Grenadiers

4 July, 1999

Rifleman Sanjay Kumar 

13th Battalion, Jammu &  Kashmir Rifles

4 July, 1999

Captain Vikram Batra 

13th Battalion, Jammu &  Kashmir Rifles

7 July, 1999,  Posthumous


Hence, we can say that 21 soldiers have been awarded Param Vir  Chakra the highest Gallantry award in India and none of them are  form Navy. Out of which 20 were from the Indian Army and one from  the Air force. 

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