Gurbachan Singh Salaria - wikipedia Gurbachan Singh Salaria Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria PVC ( 1935 - 11 - 29 ) 29 November 1935 Shakargarh, British India ( presently in Pakistan ) 5 December 1961 ( 1961 - 12 - 05 ) ( aged 26 ) KIA at Elizabethville, Katanga, Congo Allegiance Republic of India Service / branch Indian Army Years of service 1957 -- 1961 Rank Captain Unit 3 / 1 Gorkha Rifles Battles / wars Congo Crisis Awards Param Vir Chakra Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria, PVC ( 29 November 1935 -- 5 December 1961 ) is an Indian military war hero, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India 's highest wartime military award. In the 1988 television serial Param Vir Chakra by Chetan Anand, Captain G.S. Salaria was played by actor Brando Bakshi. Contents 1 Early life 2 Military career 2.1 Param Vir Chakra 3 Other honours 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References Early life Gurbachan Singh Salaria was born on 29 November 1935, in Janwal, a village near Shakargarh, British India ( now Pakistan ). He was the second of five children of Munshi Ram and Dhan Devi. Earlier his father had been drafted in the Dogra Squadron of the Hodson 's Horse in the British Indian Army. Salaria was motivated to join the army at a very young age listening to the tales of his father and his regiment. As a result of the partition, the family moved to the Indian side and settled in Jangal village of Gurdaspur district. Salaria joined the local village school and later in 1946, he got admitted in King George 's Royal Military College ( KGRMC ) in Bangalore. In August 1947, he was transferred to KGRMC in Jallandhar. After passing out from KGRMC, he joined the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy ( NDA ). Upon graduation from NDA in 1956, he subsequently passed out of the Indian Military Academy is June 1957. Military career Salaria was initially commission into the 2nd Battalion of 3 Gorkha Rifles, but was later transferred to the 3rd Battalion of 1 Gorkha Rifles in March 1960. In June 1960, after the Belgians quit Congo, a civil war situation developed in that country. The Belgians started intervening in the province of Katanga, followed by Kasai Province. Due to the mutiny in Congolese Army, the government was unable to deter the Belgian conquest. Soon the Congo government requested to United Nations ( UN ) for help, and on 14 July 1960 the help was sanctioned. Between March -- June 1961, under the command of Brigadier K.A.S. Raja, India contributed a brigade of around 3000 men to the UN. 99 Infantry Brigade group. After failed reconciliation between the parties, on 24 November, the UN Security Council approved the resolution for use to force to immediately resolve the conflict and establish peace in the region. As a response two senior UN officers were taken hostages, but were later released. After murdering his driver, Major Ajit Singh from 1 Gorkha Rifles was also taken a hostage. Roadblocks were erected by the enemy forces to prevent communications between the UN detachments and thus isolating them from each other. As a result, it would be easy to take down the detachments one by one. On 5 December 1961, a 3 / 1 GR Company supported by 3 - inch mortar attacked a road - block, established by the Katangese troops, between HQ Katanga command and the Elizabethville airfield at a strategic roundabout. The enemy roadblock was destroyed and the Gorkhas established a UN roadblock there. When Captain Salaria, with his platoon, tried to link up with the Gorkha Company to reinforce the roadblock, he met strong opposition in the old airfield area. The enemy held the area strongly with two armoured cars and 90 men and brought down heavy automatic and small arms fire on his force from a dug - in position on the right flank. Undeterred by the superior enemy strength and firepower, Salaria decided to take the enemy, head - on, to achieve the objective. The Gorkhas then charged the enemy with bayonets, khukris and hand - grenades. A rocket launcher supported them in the attack. In this sharp encounter, Captain Salaria and his men killed 40 of the enemy and knocked out two enemy cars. His bold action completely demoralised the enemy who fled despite numerical superiority and well - fortified positions. In the engagement, Captain Salaria was wounded in the neck by a burst of enemy automatic fire. Ignoring the injury, he continued to fight till he collapsed due to excessive bleeding, dying subsequently of his wounds. Captain Salaria 's actions prevented the Katangese rebels from encircling the UN Headquarters in Elisabethville. His leadership, courage, unflinching devotion to duty and disregard for personal safety were in the best traditions of the Indian Army and for which Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria was posthumously awarded the highest wartime medal, Param Vir Chakra. Param Vir Chakra The Param Vir Chakra citation on the Official Indian Army Website reads as follows : On 5 December 1961, 3 / 1 Gorkha Rifles was ordered to clear a roadblock established by the gendarmerie at a strategic roundabout at Elizabethville, Katanga. The plan was that one company with 2 Swedish armoured cars would attack the position frontally and Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria with two sections of Gorkhas and two Swedish armoured personnel carriers would advance towards this roadblock from the airfield to act as a cutting - off force. Captain Salaria with his small force arrived at a distance of 1500 yards from the roadblock at approximately 1312 hours on 5 December 1961 and came under heavy automatic and small - arms fire from an undetected enemy position dug in on his right flank. The enemy also had two armoured cars and about 90 men opposing Captain Salaria 's small force. Captain Salaria appreciating that he had run into a subsidiary roadblock and ambush and that this enemy force might reinforce the strategic roundabout and thus jeopardise the main operation, decided to remove this opposition. He led a charge with bayonets, khukris, and grenades supported by a rocket launcher. In this gallant engagement, Captain Salaria killed 40 of the enemy and knocked out the two armoured cars. This unexpected bold action completely demoralised the enemy who fled despite their numerical superiority and protected positions. Captain Salaria was wounded in his neck by a burst of automatic fire but continued to fight till he collapsed due to profuse bleeding. Captain Salaria 's gallant action prevented any enemy movement of the enemy force towards the main battle scene and thus contributed very largely to the success of the main battalion 's action at the roundabout and prevented the encirclement of UN Headquarters in Elizabethville. Captain Salaria subsequently died of his wounds. Other honours The Shipping Corporation of India Ltd ( SCI ), a Government of India Public Sector Enterprise under the aegis of Ministry of Shipping, named fifteen of her Crude Oil Tankers in honour of the Param Vir Chakra recipients. The crude oil tanker named MT `` Capt. Gurbachan Singh Salaria, PVC '' was delivered to SCI on 26 October 1984. Due to the MARPOL Convention on single hull tankers, SCI phased out all her fifteen PVC series crude tankers on completion of their economic age of 25 years. See also Bangalore Military School Chail Military School Joginder Singh Sahnan Notes Footnotes Jump up ^ United Nations Security Council Resolution 169, adopted on November 24, 1961. Citations Jump up ^ Rawat 2014, p. 70. ^ Jump up to : Cardozo 2003, p. 187. ^ Jump up to : Cardozo 2003, p. 188. Jump up ^ Cardozo 2003, p. 182. Jump up ^ `` UN Resolution 169 '' ( PDF ). United Nations Documents. United Nations. Retrieved 7 November 2017. Jump up ^ Cardozo 2003, p. 183. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009. Retrieved 13 May 2009. ^ Jump up to : The Param Vir Chakra Winners ( PVC ), Official Website of the Indian Army, retrieved 28 August 2014 Jump up ^ http://www.indianarmy.gov.in/PVC/photo_2.htm Jump up ^ `` Vessel Info ''. References Rawat, Rachna Bisht ( 2014 ), The Brave : Param Vir Chakra Stories, Penguin Books India Private Limited, ISBN 978 - 01 - 4342 - 235 - 8 Chakravorty, B.C. ( 1995 ), Stories of Heroism : PVC & MVC Winners, New Delhi : Allied Publishers, ISBN 978 - 81 - 7023 - 516 - 3 Reddy, Kittu ( 2007 ), Bravest of the Brave : Heroes of the Indian Army, New Delhi : Prabhat Prakashan, ISBN 978 - 81 - 87100 - 00 - 3 Cardozo, Major General Ian ( retd. ) ( 2003 ), Param Vir : Our Heroes in Battle, New Delhi : Roli Books, ISBN 978 - 81 - 7436 - 262 - 9 Param Vir Chakra recipients Somnath Sharma ( 1947 ) Jadunath Singh ( 1948 ) Rama Raghoba Rane ( 1948 ) Piru Singh Shekhawat ( 1948 ) Karam Singh ( 1948 ) Gurbachan Singh Salaria ( 1961 ) Dhan Singh Thapa ( 1962 ) Joginder Singh Sahnan ( 1962 ) Shaitan Singh ( 1962 ) Abdul Hamid ( 1965 ) Ardeshir Burzorji Tarapore ( 1965 ) Albert Ekka ( 1971 ) Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon ( 1971 ) Arun Khetarpal ( 1971 ) Hoshiar Singh ( 1971 ) Bana Singh ( 1987 ) Ramaswamy Parameshwaran ( 1987 ) Manoj Kumar Pandey ( 1999 ) Yogendra Singh Yadav ( 1999 ) Sanjay Kumar ( 1999 ) Vikram Batra ( 1999 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurbachan_Singh_Salaria&oldid=809127570 '' Categories : Indian Army officers Recipients of the Param Vir Chakra 1935 births 1961 deaths Punjabi people Military personnel from Punjab, India Indian military personnel killed in action Hidden categories : EngvarB from September 2014 Use dmy dates from September 2014 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2016 Talk Contents About Wikipedia ગુજરાતી हिन्दी Edit links This page was last edited on 7 November 2017, at 08 : 10. 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Question: who awarded param vir chakra in un peacekeeping
Answer: Gurbachan Singh Salaria