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They proved this when the local army unit received a call for emergency donation of blood to a cancer patient undergoing treatment in the Fortis Hospital. 85 yr old Raminder Kaur, wife of Colonel (retd) Bhagat Singh, is suffering from cancer. They have no children and stay alone in Chandigarh. Having no close relatives of […]

They proved this when the local army unit received a call for emergency donation of blood to a cancer patient undergoing treatment in the Fortis Hospital.

85 yr old Raminder Kaur, wife of Colonel (retd) Bhagat Singh, is suffering from cancer. They have no children and stay alone in Chandigarh. Having no close relatives of the couple in the city they were looked after by volunteers of Gurdwara Baru Sahib in their Sector 36 home.

Col Bhagat Singh is almost 90 years old and suffers from poor vision. A message on Facebook was posted where volunteers were appealed for donating blood.

Brig (retd) I S Gakhal, a former Sikh Regiment officer and an office-bearer of the local association of the Sikh Regiment officers, made a call to the Commanding Officer of 4 Sikh in Chandimandir asking for immediate help. Within an hour of receiving a call, the battalion dispatched 4 Jawans for donating blood at the hospital in Mohali.

“It was extremely kind of the Commanding Officer of 4 Sikh to have responded promptly for the call to help,” said Brig Gakhal. He added that during his service in the Army, Col Bhagat Singh had raised two battalions of the Sikh Regiment and had gone on to command three battalions, which was a rare honour and achievement.

The humane help provided by the battalion has come in for praise from veterans of the regiment. Major General (retd) K Khorana, a former Commanding Officer of the battalion, said the unit had lived up to the ethos of the Army.

Giving the history of the unit, he said that it participated in the legendary Battle of Saragarhi in 1897 in North West Frontier Province. “In 1962 Sino-India war, the unit took part in the Battle of Walong in the Eastern Theatre while in 1965 war, it captured Barki village in Pakistan Punjab which was strategically located. In 1971 war, the unit saw action in East Pakistan, later Bangladesh,” he added.

~Source: IndianExpress

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