Naik Jadunath Singh Rathore

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Naik Jadunath Singh Rathore was an on-duty soldier in the Indian Army who is well known in the course of history for the Battle of Tain Dhar. Jadunath Singh Rathore was awarded Indias highest gallantry award the Param Vir Chakra for his decisive role during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1947-48. Jadunath died after receiving multiple gunshot wounds to his head and chest during the Battle of Tain Dhar. [5]Bravest of the Brave: Heroes of the Indian Army by Kittu Reddy.Jadunath belonged to a very poor, agrarian family. His family could not afford Jadunaths further studies, as a result of which, he had to drop out of his school at a very young age. [6]Bravest of the Brave: Heroes of the Indian Army by Kittu Reddy.Jadunath began helping his parents in doing farm-related work. He grew up to be a renowned wrestler in his village. [7]Royal Patiala.On 21 November 1941, at the age of 25 years, Jadunath Singh Rathore was enlisted in the British Indian Armys Rajput Regiment. As a young soldier, he served on the Eastern front and fought against the Japanese forces during the Second World War.In 1942, while fighting against the Japanese forces in Burma (now Myanmar); his unit forced the Japanese troops to withdraw all the way back to Donbaik.The Japanese forces soon regrouped and attacked the advancing Indian forces, because of which, Jadunaths 7th Rajput Regiment was cut off from the main allied forces column.Having fought their way back to the allied safe lines, Jadunaths unit attacked and captured the Akyab islands from the Japanese hands.During the later phase of the Second World War, Jadunath was a part of the force, which was responsible for thwarting back the Japanese aggressors out of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. [8]The British Army in the Far East 19411945 by Alan Jeffreys.After the end of the Second World War, and after India attained its freedom, Jadunath was moved to the Kashmir region to support Indias war efforts against Pakistan in 1947.Jadunath was deployed at the strategically important, Tain Dhar, a post that was snatched from the hands of the Pakistani invaders.