About: Piru Singh

An Entity of Type: military person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1918-1948)

Property Value
dbo:award
dbo:battle
dbo:description
  • పరమ వీర చక్ర గ్రహీత (te)
  • ପରମ ବୀର ଚକ୍ର ସମ୍ମାନିତ ଭାରତୀୟ ସୈନିକ (or)
  • hinduski członek personelu wojskowego (pl)
  • ᱯᱟ.ᱨᱟᱢ ᱣᱤᱤᱨ ᱪᱟ.ᱠᱨᱟ. ᱡᱤᱛᱠᱟᱨᱤ ᱥᱚᱢᱱᱟᱛᱷ ᱥᱟᱹᱨᱢᱟ (sat)
  • भारतीय सेना कम्पनी हवलदार मेजर एवं परमवीर चक्र सम्मानित (1918-1947) (hi)
  • কোম্পানি হাবিলদার মেজর (bn)
  • Indiaas militair (1918-1948) (nl)
  • Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1918-1948) (en)
  • militar indiu (1918–1948) (ast)
  • பரம்வீர் சக்கரா விருது பெற்றவர் (ta)
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1948-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceNumber
  • 2831592
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1936-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:author
  • Gazette Notification: 8 Pres./52, 16.1.52 (en)
dbp:awards
  • 32 (xsd:integer)
dbp:battles
dbp:birthDate
  • 1918-05-20 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthPlace
  • Rampura Beri, Rajputana, British Raj (en)
dbp:deathDate
  • 1948-07-18 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Tithwal, Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India (en)
dbp:honorificPrefix
dbp:honorificSuffix
dbp:name
  • Piru Singh Shekhawat (en)
dbp:rank
  • 24 (xsd:integer)
dbp:servicenumber
  • 2831592 (xsd:integer)
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1936 (xsd:integer)
dbp:text
  • South of Tithwal, 'D' Company, of which No 2831592 Piru Singh, was Havildar Major was detailed to attack and capture an enemy occupied hill feature. The enemy had well dug in positions and had sited his MMGs so as to cover all possible approaches. As the attack advanced, it was met with heavy MMG fire from both flanks. Volleys of grenades were hurled down from enemy bunkers. Company Havildar Major Piru Singh was then with the forward most Section of the company. Seeing more than half of the Section killed or wounded, he did not lose courage. With battle cries he encouraged the remaining men and rushed forward with great determination onto the nearest enemy MMG position. Grenade splinters ripping his clothes and wounding him at several places, he continued to advance without the least regard for his safety. He was on top of the MMG position wounding the gun crew with Sten gun fire. With complete disregard to his bleeding wounds he made a mad jump on the MMG crew bayoneting them to death, thus silencing the gun. By then he suddenly realized that he was the sole survivor of the section, the rest of them either dead or wounded. Another grenade thrown at him wounded him in the face. With blood dripping from his face wounds in his eyes, he crawled out of the trench, hurling grenades at the next enemy position. (en)
dbp:unit
  • 20 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Piru Singh (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Piru Singh Shekhawat (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International