From The Vault

[fatman17]

Major William Alexander Brown, the liberator of Gilgit Agency.

Commander of Gilgit Scouts, he deposed Brigadier Ghansara Singh, the Maharaja's Governor of Gilgit on 1st November 1947, in a coup d'etat under the codename 'Datta Khel'. He remained Scouts Commandant till Jan '48. https://t.co/bRXGnvksvS

 

[Reichmarshal]

some game the pomps played....on one hand general gracy refused Quaids orders and here we see a brit officer carrying out a coup against the mahararajas man.

so the powers that be made sure of the geographical situation in the region.

 

[fatman17]

the Sitara-e-Jurat (Star of Courage) and it's Kashmir War equivalent, the Sher-e-Jang (Lion of War) - issued by the Government of Azad Kashmir. https://t.co/LUxiJyYqYL

 

[fatman17]

remembering,

Naib Risaldar Khaliq Satti
Sitara-e-Jurat
25 Cavalry - "Men of Steel"
16ᵗʰ September 1965
Chawinda Railway Line

an exceptional JCO, his troop would be in the heat of battle for a fortnight.

immortalized himself while coming to the aid of a pinned down lieutenant. https://t.co/Ghm4rBKkCh

 

[fatman17]

on this day 14 years back, suicide bombers from the TNSM would kill more than 40 recruits from the Punjab Regimental Centre, at Dargai, in what would be the first major attack on the army outside the tribal areas, since the beginning of the WoT.

a bloody future was imminent...

 

[fatman17]

Guides Cavalry

 

[fatman17]

A Scottish Cannon in Potohar
*Remembrance Day Series*
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On a flat clayey stretch just where the ground starts folding into ravines of Salt Range, next to Ketaksha (Ketas) where Shiva once wept, lies a village Dulmial
A jet black artillery piece makes it "village with the gun" https://t.co/3jWdvn0vvY

 

[fatman17]

the infantry's organic indirect firesupport - in the East.

the intensity of the warfighting would sharply rise as November progressed. https://t.co/eDuoyyooZY

 

[Yasser76]

A Scottish Cannon in Potohar
*Remembrance Day Series*
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On a flat clayey stretch just where the ground starts folding into ravines of Salt Range, next to Ketaksha (Ketas) where Shiva once wept, lies a village Dulmial
A jet black artillery piece makes it "village with the gun" https://t.co/3jWdvn0vvY
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Not far from my mother's village in Jatli....

 

[fatman17]

Wow, so you must have visited?

Not far from my mother's village in Jatli....

 

[fatman17]

5 Horse - Probyn's Horse

last saw action as a mounted unit at Kalanjar Uttar, facing the Deccan Horse.

shifted north and held in reserve for Operation Wind-Up; envisaged as a counteroffensive to seize the initiative from the Indian I Corps, after it's failure to take Chawinda. https://t.co/31ZWif2Dr8

 

[Yasser76]

Wow, so you must have visited?

No, never got the chance really, when I was a boy when we visited Pakistan we would stay in Jatli only for a few days, I only every visited Chakwal once. Most of our time was spent in Rawalpindi. Interestingly enough the village on my fathers side in Dawri is very close to this village

The Pakistan village that sent all of its men to fight in WWI - and was nearly airbrushed out of history

Dr Irfan Malik was just five years-old when he left his native Nottingham to visit his ancestral village of Dulmial in Pakistan.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Generally the Pothar region of Punjab supplied a very high number of men for the army in WW1 and WW2. They still do to a large extent

 

[fatman17]

Lt Selhria’s name has been engraved on the Monumental Stone at the RMC, Duntroon dedicated to the memory of its graduates who gave their lives in the service of their country. https://t.co/WHeyQXVvxI

 

[fatman17]

ideals are peaceful

history is violent. https://t.co/ke5TbNepZX

 

[fatman17]

The First "Native" VC
*Remembrance Day Series*
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Outside Army Museum, in perfect military bearing, hands firm on his rifle, stands a tall figure
Our proud soldier, dear reader, is the first South Asian recipient of Victoria Cross & the first native-born Indian to win the medal https://t.co/J5tLzH35CE