Indian Army Observes 75th Infantry Day in Jammu
The navy on Wednesday held wreath laying ceremonies at unique formations throughout the Jammu region, which include the northern command headquarters at Udhampur, even as watching the seventy fifth Infantry day, a defence spokesman stated. The Infantry Day is discovered as a remembrance of the primary army operations accomplished via way of means of impartial India while the Indian navy repelled the primary assault on its soil on October 27, 1947 withinside the Kashmir valley.
The navy organised a conventional wreath laying rite on the Dhruva War Memorial in Udhampur, wherein leader of staff, headquarters northern command Lieutenant General S Harimohan Iyer participated on behalf of Army commander, northern command, Lt Gen Yogesh Kumar Joshi.
Lt Gen Iyer preferred all ranks and veterans of Infantry for his or her devotion to obligation and indomitable spirit even as running beneathneath attempting and hard conditions.
He saluted their contributions and sacrifices to defend the territorial integrity of the country and preventing terrorism with unstinting resolve. On this solemn day, the ideally suited sacrifices made via way of means of the Indian Army in protecting the respect and integrity of the country had been remembered via way of means of all, the spokesman stated.
At a separate feature, the spokesman stated Jammu-primarily based totally Tiger Division discovered he Infantry Day with conventional solemnity. Major General Neeraj Gosain, General Officer Commanding ‘Tiger Division’, laid a wreath on the ‘War Memorial’ in Satwari Cantonment here, the spokesman stated, including serving officials and all ranks of ‘Tiger Division’ attended the rite.
Similar activities had been additionally organised at respective Brigade Headquarters, the spokesman stated. To honour the ideally suited sacrifice of the infantry in preventing the Pakistani raiders in 1947, Rising Star Corps additionally discovered the day via way of means of establishing a wreath laying rite at ‘War Memorial’ in Yol cantonment in Himachal Pradesh, the spokesman stated.
He stated GOC ‘Rising Star Corps’ Lt Gen P N Ananthanarayanan laid the wreath on the ‘War Memorial’ at a feature which changed into attended via way of means of serving Infantry officials and all ranks of ‘Rising Star Corps. Similar activities had been additionally organised at Mamun and Pathankot, the spokesman stated.