Major Hoshiar Singh Dahiya

Biography & Cultural Legacy

Colonel Hoshiar Singh Dahiya, PVC (5 May 1937 - 6 December 1998, born in Sisana village, Sonipat, Haryana) was an Indian Army officer whose courage in the face of the enemy is immortalized in Indian military history. Serving in the 3rd Battalion, The Grenadiers, during the 1971 Indo-Pak War, Major Hoshiar Singh led the assault across the Basantar River in the Shakargarh sector. Despite severe bullet and shrapnel wounds, he refused evacuation, held Jarpal against massive Pakistani counter-attacks, and was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.

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