Mahavir Chakra (MVC) recipient, Brig Raghubir Singh Rajawat passed away. He was from 18 Rajputana Rifles and had also received a sword from Maharaja Sawai Man Singh as a token of honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born on November 2, 1923, Singh was commissioned on April 18, 1943 in the Sawaiman Guards as a second lieutenant and fought a number of wars including World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He participated in the Burma war in 1944 and went to Japan to fight. Thereafter, he fought in the Indo-Pak war of 1947-48 in the Uri sector immediately after Independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the war of North and South Korea in 1954, he was posted as chairman of the Neutral Nations Representative Commission (NNRC) as part of the peace keeping force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the1958-59 Israel \u2013 Egypt war, he was part of the United Nations Emergency Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He commanded his battalion 18 Rajputana Rifles (later 11 Mechanised Infantry) during the 1965 Indo-Pak war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leading from the front, he proved to be an example for his men to follow displaying excellent standards of bravery during the battle of Asal Uttar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mahavir Chakra (MVC) recipient, Brig Raghubir Singh Rajawat passed away. He was from 18 Rajputana Rifles and had also received a sword from Maharaja Sawai Man Singh as a token of honour. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Born on November 2, 1923, Singh was commissioned on April 18, 1943 in the Sawaiman Guards as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":44914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-june-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44915,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44913\/revisions\/44915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}