Bachittar Singh (soldier)

Havildar Bachittar Singh, AC (10 January 1917 - 13 September 1948) was a soldier in Indian Army who was posthumously awarded the highest peacetime military decoration Award “Ashoka Chakra “, becoming the first Indian to receive this gallantry award.[1][2]

Havildar Bachittar Singh AC
Portrait of Hav Bachittar Singh
Born	(1917-01-10)10 January 1917 Lobo, Punjab, India
Died	13 September 1948(1948-09-13) (aged 31) Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Allegiance	India
Service/branch	Indian Army
Years of service	1934-1948
Rank	Havildar
Service number	13730
Unit	2 Sikh
Battles/wars	Operation Polo
Awards	AC

References

"Brave soldier Bachittar Singh". www.thankyouindianarmy.com.
"Havildar Bachittar Singh Ashoka Chakra Recipient". www.honourpoint.in.

Ashoka Chakra award recipients
2011 to 2030	Nazir Ahmad Wani (2019) Jyoti Prakash Nirala (2018) Hangpan Dada (2017) Mohan Nath Goswami (2016) Mukund Varadarajan (2014) Neeraj Kumar Singh (2014) K. Prasad Babu (2014) Navdeep Singh (2012) Laishram Jyotin Singh (2011)
1991 to 2010	Rajesh Kumar (soldier) (2010) D. Sreeram Kumar (2010) Mohit Sharma (soldier) (2010) Bahadur Singh Bohra (2009) Hemant Karkare (2009) Vijay Salaskar (2009) Ashok Kamte (2009) Tukaram Omble (2009) Gajender Singh Bisht (2009) Sandeep Unnikrishnan (2009) Mohan Chand Sharma (2009) Jojan Thomas (2009) R. P. Diengdoh (2009) Pramod Kumar Satapathy (2009) Dinesh Raghu Raman (2008) Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan (2007) Chuni Lal (2007) Vasanth Venugopal (2007) Triveni Singh (2004) Sanjog Chhetri (2004) Surinder Singh (2002) Rambeer Singh Tomar (2002) Kamlesh Kumari (2001) Sudhir Kumar Walia (2000) Puneet Nath Datt (1997) Shanti Swaroop Rana (1997) Arjun Singh Jasrotia (1996) Rajiv Kumar Joon (1995) Sujjan Singh (soldier) (1995) Harsh Uday Singh Gaur (1995) Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair (1994) Rakesh Singh (soldier) (1993) Randhir Prasad Verma (1991) Sandeep Sankhla (1992)
1971 to 1990	Neerja Bhanot (1987) Nirbhay Singh (soldier) (1985) Bhawani Datt Joshi (1985) Bhukant Misra (1985) Rakesh Sharma (1985) Chhering Mutup (1985) Gennadi Strekalov (1984) Yuri Malyshev (1984) Cyrus Addie Pithawalla (1981) Gurnam Singh (soldier) (1974) Ummed Singh Mahra (1972)
1951 to 1970	Jas Ram Singh (1969) Shankar Lal Shrivastava (1967) Purshottam (1965) Kharka Bahadur Limbu (1962) Man Bahadur Rai (1962) Eric James Tucker (1958) Suhas Biswas (1952) Bachittar Singh (Soldier) (1952) Narbahadur Thapa (1952) Damodar Kashinath Jatar (1955) Sundar Singh (1956)

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