Karnal: Memory began to fail a lot of people with age, but 83 years old Ram Dhari Singh remembered the 1971 war like yesterday.
Now undergo laidback, retired life in his home village, Bazida Jattan, in Karnal Haryana District, Ram Dhari was awarded Sena medal over his contribution to the war.
During the 1971 war, he was associated with 4 JAT regiments at Fazilka Post.
RAM Dhari was only 21 years old when he joined the medical corps in the Army in 1963 as Sepoy, immediately after completing class VIII.
His job is to take an army who was injured to the hospital.
As an ambulance driver, he rushed 335 soldiers who were injured to the hospital from the battlefield.
For this, he was awarded the Sena medal in 1972.
“I have to make at least five rounds every day from the battlefield to the hospital,” he said.
Ram Dhari was injured in an accident on December 13, 1971, in the course of his duties and remained in the hospital for three months.
For a few days after the accident, there was confusion and his family was told that the soldier died.
Only after five days they were told that he was still alive.
“I suffered an injury in the accident and was rushed to the basic camp in the subconscious condition.
From there, I was taken to the Srinagar army hospital.
After that, I was hospitalized in Delhi,” said Ram Dhari.
“News of my obvious husband’s death has shaken us.
You can imagine the relief we will feel when we are told that he is still alive and at the hospital,” said Sunheri Devi, wife of Ram Dhari.
After recovering from my injury, Ram Dhari.
Given the option to take medical pensions.
“But I refuse to leave the life of the army and join the task in the same place,” he added.
After the war, Ram Dhari remembered, he and his two friends had accidentally entered Pakistan.
“When we realized that we were on the wrong side of the border, we took G turning and reached India after crossing the river.
Commander, LT COL Rajkumar Suri, praised us,” he recalled.