PATIALA: LT COL Baldev Singh Garew (RETD) Remember December 10, 1971, like yesterday.
This is a 1971 War Veteran Day, congratulations from the blast of a hand grenade in the Laksham Bangladesh sector, but lost his brother – VIR Chakra Awardee Major Hardev Singh – for enemy shots in the Jammu sector.
Grenade landed only two feet from Lt Garewal, greatly injuring the foot of the veteran war which was then a captain’s ranking officer.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Indian-Pakistani war in 1971.
As a large number of soldiers from the region fighting in a different front, the Times of India spoke with several military veterans and their families to make you anecdote interesting about Warlt Car Garewal (76) told him And his brother, May Hardev, each of which is part of 6 regiments and 9 jat’s regiment, during the war, while their oldest brother, captain Sukhdev Singh Garesal (Retd), was in engineer regiment and served the army for six years.
“I joined my battalion in the Laksham sector in the afternoon on December 6, 1971.
I (Helper) and I walked for about 50 hours and entered 40 km in Bangladesh.
From 7 to 9 December, we did a normal operation; at 10 December morning, we were on a mission to block enemy troops.
Army from both sides of LOBED hand grenades with each other and a number of Pakistani soldiers were killed.
Visibility is only 20 meters.
There are about 10 bunkers where the enemy soldiers continue to attack us.
From one of the bunkers, The hand grenade thrown by a Pakistani soldier exploded only two feet from me, leaving four my colleagues died, “said LT Garewal.
Apart from Garewal Col, the four personnel from their platoon were also injured.
“I applied several drugs and used bandages to stop the bleeding.
I wake up to fight again, but in vain.
I fainted when I was taken to the field hospital to treat wounds.
Flakes are still in my thighs and feet.
I can’t participate In the delivery ceremony, “said LT Garesal.
He said he was honored by the mid award (mentioned in shipping) and retirement from Maratha Li’s regiment.
However, the survival story comes with sad news.
A few days after he regained consciousness, Lt Garewal was told that his sister was martyred in the Chamb sector on the same day he was injured.
“After I recovered from an injury to the hospital, I was asked by my senior to go home to meet the family.
I reached the Ludhiana bus standing to take the bus for Patiala.
There, I saw several men in uniformed soldiers carrying JAT battalion tags and I asked them Their battalion details.
When they said they belonged to 9 JAT, I immediately asked them about my brother who was also part of their battalion.
They told me that my brother was very brave and fighting with courage.
I asked them why they used the Word That? Then I was told that my brother had martyrdom in the war and I was left broken, “he said.
The Garesal family belongs to Guara District Sangrur Village (now Malerkotla), but shifted to Patiala in the early 1990s.