Paramvir Chakra Award is the highest gallantry award to the Indian armed forces personnel for their valour, bravery during wars. Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria was one of them.<\/p>\n
Capt Gurbachan Singh Salaria was born on 29th<\/sup> Nov 1935 in a Jangal village m in Gurdaspur Punjab. \u00a0\u00a0He was the son of \u00a0\u00a0Sri Munshi Ram and his Smt Dhan \u00a0Devi and belongs to an agricultural family.<\/p>\n He completed his education at \u00a0King George Royal Indian Military College (Now known as Rashtriya Military School) Bangalore in 1946 \u00a0later joined NDA at Khadakvasla. His first posting was in the 1st Gorkha Rifles\u00a0 on 9 June 1957<\/p>\n 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.<\/em><\/p>\n 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\u2019s small force.<\/em><\/p>\n 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 jeopardize 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 armored cars. This unexpected bold action completely demoralized the enemy who fled despite their numerical superiority and protected positions.<\/em><\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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\u2019s action at the roundabout and prevented the encirclement of UN Headquarters in Elizabethville. Captain Salaria subsequently died of his wounds.<\/em><\/p>\n The unit of Capt. Salaria deployed in Elizabethville in Katanga province, the Headquarters of UN Command.\u00a0 He was tasked of removing roadblocks set up by the rebels near the airfield.<\/p>\n On 5 December 1961, a 3\/1 GR Company supported by 3-inch mortar attacked a road-block, established by the Katangese troops, In the attacked enemy roadblocks were destroyed and established \u00a0UN roadblock was there. \u00a0In opposition, \u00a0the enemy held the area strongly with two armoured cars and 90 men. 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 hand-grenades etc.\u00a0 Despite being heavily armed the enemy troops had to leave the battlefield seeing Salaria’s bravery and courage. His bold action completely demoralised the enemy who fled despite numerical superiority and well-fortified positions.<\/p>\n His leadership, courage, unflinching devotion to duty and disregard for his personal safety were the reasons for which Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria was posthumously awarded the highest wartime medal, Param Vir Chakra.<\/p>\n Branch Offices :<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n BAREILLY:<\/em><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>35A Civil Lines, Chauki Chauraha, Near Amaya\u00a0 Hotel, Bareilly (U.P.)\u00a0 \u00a0Contact : 9690502728<\/p>\n DEHRADUN: \u2013 <\/strong>108C, Top Floor Haridwar Road, Above ICICI bank, Dharampur Branch, Dharampur, Dehradun Contact: 8400083030<\/p>\n RANCHI: \u2013<\/em><\/strong>\u00a06th Floor Jagganath Tower, 403, Circular Road, Lalpur, Ahirtoli, Ranchi (Jharkhand) Contact: 9934113030<\/p>\n GWALIOR:-\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>106 MLB colony, Near Miss school, Padav, i.e. Gwalior Contact: 6262063030<\/p>\n Website:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0www.trishuldefenceacademy.com<\/em><\/p>\n Mail us at<\/em><\/strong>\u2013<\/em>\u00a0info.trishuldefenceacademy@gmail.com<\/p>\n Jai Hind<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramvir Chakra Award is the highest gallantry award to the Indian armed forces personnel for their valour, bravery during wars. Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria was one of them. BACKGROUND Capt Gurbachan Singh Salaria was born on 29th Nov 1935 in a Jangal village m in Gurdaspur Punjab. \u00a0\u00a0He was the son of \u00a0\u00a0Sri Munshi Ram and his Smt Dhan \u00a0Devi and belongs to an agricultural family. He completed his education at \u00a0King George Royal Indian Military College (Now known as Rashtriya Military School) Bangalore in 1946 \u00a0later joined NDA at Khadakvasla. His first posting was in the 1st Gorkha Rifles\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,186,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-heroes-2","category-war-heros-war-heroes-2","category-war-heros"],"yoast_head":"\nCITATION<\/h4>\n
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