Satyawant Mallana Srinagesh General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh ( 1903 – 1977 ) was the second Indian to become Chief of Army Staff . He was in charge of Kumaon Regiment for several years . On retirement from the army , he was Governor of Assam , Mysore and Andhra Pradesh . He was also principal of Administrative Staff College of India at Hyderabad . General Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh assumed charge of the Indian Army , as the 3rd Chief of Army Staff , on 14 May 1955 . He was the eldest son of Dr Shrinagesh Mallannah , who was the personal physician to the Nizam of Hyderabad . Born in 1903 at Kolhapur , Maharashtra he went to West Buckland School in England and entered Cambridge University in 1921 . Among the earliest batches of Indians to be nominated for the Sandhurst Military Academy in the U . K . , he won the Quetta Cup for the best man at arms entering the Indian Army in 1923 . He was subsequently commissioned into the 19th Hyderabad Regiment ( presently known as the Kumaon Regiment ) on 30 August 1923 . After a brief association with the North Staffordshire Regiment , he was posted to the 2 / 1 Madras Pioneers with which he served mostly in Burma until it was disbanded . In 1933 , he joined the 4 / 19th Hyderabad Regiment and served in Singapore as its adjutant . In December 1939 , he was posted as an Instructor at the Indian Military Academy , Dehra Dun . From 17 December 1942 till 28 August 1945 , he was the Commanding Officer of the 6 / 19th Hyderabad Regiment ( now 6th Kumaon ) . He then officiated as the Brigade Commander of the 64th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 19th Indian ( Dagger ) Division in Burma from August 1945 . He was then appointed as the first Indian Commandant of the Kumaon Regimental Centre in Agra on 2 October 1946 and served in that capacity till 12 December 1946 . He was then chosen to lead the 268th Infantry Brigade British Commonwealth Occupation Force ( BCOF ) in post World War II Japan and served in that post till 1947 . He was also Brigade Commander of the famous Lushai Brigade in Burma in 1947 . He was selected to go to Germany as Deputy Chief of the Indian Military Mission in November 1945 . In that capacity , he also worked as the Economic Adviser & Consul looking after the interests of Indian nationals in Germany and locating missing Prisoners of War ( POWs ) . On his return from Japan , he was promoted to Major - General and was appointed the General Officer Commanding of the Madras Area . From January 1948 , he was appointed as the Adjutant General at the Army Headquarters and held that post till August of the same year . He also commanded the 5th Corps ( later designated as 15th Corps ) . He was appointed the overall commander of all troops in Jammu & Kashmir during the 1947 - 48 Indo - Pak War and held this command till the ceasefire on 1 January 1949 . Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in 1950 , he was chosen as the GOC - in - C Western Command on 15 January 1949 . He was then appointed as the GOC - in - C Southern Command and held that post , till he assumed charge as the Army Chief on 14 May 1955 . General Shrinagesh retired on 7 May 1957 , completing 34 years of distinguished military service . Post retirement , he served as the Governor of Assam from 1959 to 1962 , then as the Governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1962 to 1964 and finally as Governor of Mysore ( now Karnataka ) from 1964 to 1965 . From 1959 to 1957 , he also served as the Principal of the Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad . He died on 27 December 1977 and is survived , by his wife ( Mrs . Kumari Shrinagesh ) three sons and two daughters .