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  Jemadar Abdul Hafiz, VC, Indian Airforce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jemadar Abdul Hafiz assembled his section and told them that they were invincible.
While getting to the crest he was wounded in the leg, but seeing a machine gun firing from a flank, he rushed towards it, seized the barrel and pushed it upwards while another man killed the gunner.
He was badly wounded in the chest and collapsed holding the Bren gun and attempting to fire and shouting at the same time, "Reorganise on the position.
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  Jemadar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jemadar was a rank used in the British Indian Army, where it was the lowest rank for a Viceroy's Commissioned Officer (VCO).
Jemadars either commanded platoons or troops themselves or assisted their British commander.
The rank of Jemadar was later renamed in both the Indian Army and the Pakistan Army as Naib Subedar in infantry units, and Naib Risaldar in cavalry and armoured corps units.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jemadar   (181 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for jemadar
Obituary: Jemadar Ali Haidar VC `The conspicuous gallantry, initiative and determination combined with a complete disregard for his own life shown by this very brave sepoy were an example to the whole company'
He then rose to the commission rank of Jemadar and on retirement returned to his old village to run a scrub farm with his wife.
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 Daily Excelsior... Editorial
Jemadar Parkash Singh took over this Sections Bren Gun and held the section’s sector of the perimeter single handed until reinforcement were rushed up by the company commander.
At 0145 hours Jemadar Parkash Singh was wounded for the third time in the right leg and was so weak from the loss of blood that he was unable to move.
Jemadar Parkash Singh shouted out the Dogra Warery which was immediately taken up by the rest of the company engaged in hand to hand fighting within the perimeter of his locality.
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 Synonym for jemadar - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta
Synonym for jemadar - Thesaurus - MSN Encarta
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 Abdul Hafiz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was 25 years old, and a Jemadar in the 9th Jat Infantry, British Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
On 6 April 1944 north of Imphal, India, Jemadar Abdul Hafiz was ordered to attack with his platoon a prominent position held by the enemy, the only approach to which was across a bare slope and then up a very steep cliff.
The jemadar led the assault, killing several of the enemy himself and then pressed on regardless of machine-gun fire from another feature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Hafiz   (220 words)

  
 Indian Officers of the Indian Army 1900-1939
Jemadar Shah Wali Khan was almost certainly wounded in the action of 28th October 1914.
Jemadar Shah Wali Khan did not appear in any further Indians Army Lists after the January 1915 edition, and it is clear that his wound(s) took him out of the war, put an end to his military career, and possibly left him invalided throughout the rest of his life.
In the summer of 1900, Jemadar Gird Ali along with a detachment of his Regiment, went to China with the 26th Regiment of Bombay Infantry to take part in putting down the Boxer rebellion.
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 Stickgrappler's MMA page - Bando - Command Issue 26/Jan-Feb 1994 page
The jemadar explained Blackpool had been abandoned several weeks earlier, after the Japanese had delivered a series of intense artillery and mortar bombardments, followed by furious infantry charges.
Jemadar Yambahadur and his platoon from the 319 Gurkha Regiment were assigned to serve as rear guard and pick up the sick and stragglers
With the permission of the jemadar and Dr. Singh, I built a small shrine from loose stones in front of the cave.
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 Source 5 | Useful notes
Indian troops (from what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) had been the backbone of British armed forces throughout the empire since the early 1800s.
Jemadar Mir Dast (or Jemadar Mir Dost) was born in 1874 at Maidan, Tirah in India.
He enlisted in the 55th Coke's Rifles in 1894 and had already received several medals for bravery by the time he was attached to the 57th Wilde's Rifles.
www.learningcurve.gov.uk /greatwar/usefulnotes/g3cs3s5u.htm   (387 words)

  
 GALLANTRY
Nk Nand Singh was born at village Bahadurpur District, Bathinda, Punjab in 1915.
Jemadar Nand Singh, VC, was commanding one of its forward platoons.
Jemadar Nand Singh was the first to draw blood with his bayonet.
www.sikhreview.org /october1996/gallantry.htm   (1256 words)

  
 Mahavir Chakra Jemadar Nand Singh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After two companies of the regiment were compelled to withdraw having sustained severe casualties in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, a platoon of the D-company led by Jemadar Nand Singh attacked the enemy's left flank.
The enemy fire was intense but Nand Singh pressed on, despite an injured leg.
Jemadar Nand Singh was posthumously honoured with the Mahavir Chakra.
www.allaboutsikhs.com /index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3169&pop=1&page=0   (154 words)

  
 LRB | letters from Vol. 21 No. 22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thomas Ingram says that the grade of jemadar is similar to that of lieutenant (Letters, 28 October).
A jemadar was a VCO or Viceroy's Commission Officer.
When travelling with the Jemadar and a number of soldiers in a truck the question as to who would sit in front with the driver always presented itself.
www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n22/letters.html   (1940 words)

  
 ERBzine 0390: Moon Maid Glossary by Adams and McWhorter
Jemadar Jarth, a Kalkar, is Emperor of the United Teivos of America.
The center throne is for the Jemadar and the other two are for the Jemadav and the Nonovar.
Or-tis -- Lunar name for the arch-fiend Orthis, Jemadar of Jemadars of Va-nah; also the name of his descendants; in the history of Julian 9th, Or-tis appears as a commander of the Kash Guard, Brother General Or-tis.
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 Source 5 | Transcript
Jemadar Mir Dast, I.O.M., 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force), attached 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force).
For most conspicuous bravery and great ability at Ypres on 26th April, 1915, when he led his platoon with great gallantry during the attack, and afterwards collected various parties of the regiment (when no British Officers were left) and kept them under his command until the retirement was ordered.
Jemadar Mir Dast subsequently on this day displayed remarkable courage in helping to carry eight British and Indian Officers into safety, whilst exposed to very heavy fire.
www.learningcurve.gov.uk /greatwar/transcript/g3cs3s5t.htm   (106 words)

  
 Who killed Mangal Pandey?
When General Joyce Hearsay ordered the Jemadar of the troops, a man called Ishari Pandey, to arrest him, the Jemadar refused, as did the rest of the company except Shaikh Paltu.
He failed, was captured and sentenced to death along with the Jemadar.
The Jemadar Ishari Pandey was executed on April 22.
www.hindujagruti.org /eng/phpnews/news.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=299   (327 words)

  
 Schulers Books (In Times of Peril - 6/55)
It was but twenty yards to the bushes they had marked as the place of concealment; and as they entered and crouched down there came the sound of hurrying feet, and a band of Sepoys, led by one of the jemadars, or native officers, rushed up to the veranda from the back.
There was a yell of rage on the part of the mutineers, and half a dozen bayonets darted into the faithful old servant's body, and without a word she fell dead on the veranda, a victim to her noble fidelity to the children she had nursed.
Ned translated the jemadar's speech, and at his order to search the compound both felt that all was over, and, with a grasp of each other's hand, prepared to sally forth and die.
www.schulers.com /books/ga/i/In_Times_of_Peril/In_Times_of_Peril6.htm   (1644 words)

  
 There's a Duke but where's his Duchess?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Jemadar Ishari Pandey too was sentenced to death and hanged on April 22.
The whole regiment was dismissed "with every show of disgrace" as a collective punishment, because it was felt that they harboured ill-feelings towards their superiors, particularly after this incident.
The show of disgrace while disbanding contributed to the extent of the rebellion in view of some historians, as disgruntled ex-sepoys returned home back to Awadh with a desire to inflict revenge, as and when the opportunity arose.
welleslys-journal.blogspot.com /2006/05/anglo-persian-war-arrow-war-and-indian.html   (2445 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Mangal Pande
General Hearsay, who almost certainly innaccurately remarked that Pande was in some kind of "religious frenzy," ordered a jemadar to arrest him but the jemadar refused.
He failed and was captured, along with the jemadar he was hanged on 7 April.
The whole regiment was dismissed as a collective punishment because it was felt that they would harbour feelings against their superiors after this incident.
www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Mangal_Pande   (155 words)

  
 ABDUL HAFIZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Era vecchio 25 anni e un Jemadar nella nona fanteria di jat, esercito indiano britannico durante la seconda guerra mondiale quando il seguente atto ha avvenuto per quale ha ricevuto al VC.
Del 6 sul nord aprile 1944 di Imphal, l'India, Jemadar Abdul Hafiz è stata ordinata attacare con il suo platoon che una posizione prominente ha tenuto dal nemico, l'unico metodo a cui era attraverso un pendio nudo ed allora su una scogliera molto ripida.
Il jemadar ha condotto l'assalto, mortale vari del nemico egli stesso ed allora ha premuto sopra senza riguardo a fuoco machine-gun da un'altra caratteristica.
www.facteri.com /wiki/it/ab/Abdul%20Hafiz.htm   (203 words)

  
 ERBzine 0243: Moon Maid Gallery III - Foreign Editions
JARTH: The Kalkar Jemadar, or ruler, of America in 2120, which suggests this post was not always held by an Or-tis.
JEMADAR OF JEMADARS: Overlord of the various Lunar states.
Daughter of Sagroth, Jemadar of Laythe, and a descendant of the once highly civilized race, the U-ga. After the capture of Laythe by Orthis, she fled with Julian 5th, eventually reaching Earth with him in 2036.
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 Dr Gyi 2
The jemadar lowered the Japanese flag on the main bunker.
Jemadar Kharkabahadur Rai, from 1st Platoon of B Company, took charge and divided the men into three assault teams.
Later, jemadar Kharkabahadur Rai from B Company was awarded a medal for his leadership and gallantry in recapturing Scraggy Hill.
www.pownetwork.org /phonies/phonies39.htm   (13959 words)

  
 Mangal Pandey
When General Joyce Hearsay ordered the Jemadar of the troops, a man called Ishari Pande, to arrest him, the Jemadar refused, as did the rest of the company except Shaikh Paltu.
His execution was scheduled for April 18, but he was summarily executed 10 days prior to the date, fearing the possibility of a larger-scale revolt.
The whole regiment was dismissed "with disgrace" on 6th May as a collective punishment, because it was felt that they harboured ill-feelings against their superiors.
www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/mangalpandey.html   (1538 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A Snider squibbed in the jungle, Somebody laughed and fled, And the men of the First Shikaris Picked up their Subaltern dead, With a big blue mark in his forehead And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri, Jemadar Hira Lal, Took command of the party, Twenty rifles in all, Marched them down to the river As the day was beginning to fall.
They made a pile of their trophies High as a tall man's chin, Head upon head distorted, Set in a sightless grin, Anger and pain and terror Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
www.poetryloverspage.com /poets/kipling/grave_of_hundred_head.html   (447 words)

  
 che si vela a mortai con altrui raggi. WILHELMINA TO VOLTAIRE AGAIN WITH ANSWER Second of the Prose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Early after dawn, the jemadar, with his guard, advanced to meet us, welcomed us with sundry complimentary discharges of their matchlocks, and escorted us to their post.
The jemadar's guard was composed of twenty-five men, most of whom were here, whilst the other few held another fort on the top of a hill called Tongué.
Volunteers were now called for to accompany us, who would carry each his arms, a little food, and such baggage as might be necessary--just enough to march up rapidly to Fuga, to have a little shooting in some favourable jungles near there, and return again as soon as possible.
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 nandsinghVC
In 1947, the First Kashmir War broke out between the two arch-rivals, India and Pakistan over the lush, desirable valley of Kashmir in northern sections of the Indian subcontinent.
Jemadar Nand Singh was posthumously honoured with the Mahvir Chakra." (Sikh-History.com)
The lifeless body of Jemadar Nand Singh had fallen to the ground.
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 FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1915 & Others
On the ground, also in Belgium, Jemadar Mir Dast distinguished himself commanding a platoon of the Frontier Force in an attack on German positions, later rallying the battalion after the loss of senior officers.
Corporal Smith of The Manchester Regiment was also active in the rescue of wounded men from No Man's Land, on one occasion carrying a casualty 250 yards back through enemy fire.
Both the Jemadar and Smith received the Victoria Cross.
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They were verily as coy in their advancements and retractions as a woman who, in love, gives and takes with a wavering man on whom she has set her heart at a time when he is fearful of giving way to her little seductive artifices.
In the afternoon of the 22d, as we approached Chogué, the little Beluch jemadar, with the rest of the guard, turned out to welcome us, and gloat over the successful termination of an artful trick he felt himself the father of.
The jemadar now left us, with a present for himself and the hire of his men, and we were all alone.
www.wollamshram.ca /1001/Speke/speke-chap06.htm   (9588 words)

  
 The Sikh Regiments : Gateway to Sikhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After this there was little enemy activity and the 14th Sikhs again settled down to routine duties and patrolling.
On the 6th of April a patrol, under Jemadar Narain Singh, found an empty packing case and tracks leading towards the Canal.
Suspecting that the case contained a mine, Jemadar Narain Singh reported the matter and the Royal Navy swept the Canal and discovered an enemy mine just outside the buoyed channel.
allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/fww_egypt.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Jemadar Prakash Singh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jemadar Prakash Singh, from 14th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles of the 20th Indian Division was fighting a fierce battle against the Japanese in Burma, in February 1945, during World War-II.
His division had established a bridgehead across a river and were fighting fiercely to defend it.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of BHARAT RAKSHAK is prohibited.
www.bharat-rakshak.com /HEROISM/Prakash.html   (369 words)

  
 MONUMENTS TO COURAGE Victoria Cross Headstones & Memorials
Finally the glossary definitions of Jemadar and Subadar as ÔIndian 2nd Lt' and ÔIndian Captain of Infantry' are not correct.
Premindra Singh Bhagat (nr1175 in vol 2) was an Indian 2nd Lieut when he won the award but he was not a Jemadar; he held the King's commission.
Admittedly the main, but not only role of the Jemadar in the Indian Army infantry was platoon commander, and each company had a subadar while each battalion had a subadar major who was the senior VCO, regarded by the men as next to the Almighty!
www.naval-military-press.co.uk /catalogue/military-books/4551.htm   (755 words)

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