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词条 Sartaj Singh (general)
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{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = Lieutenant General
| name = Sartaj Singh
| death_date = 23 April 1998
| allegiance = {{flag|India}}
| branch = {{army|India}}
| serviceyears = ?–1974
| rank = Lieutenant General
| unit = Regiment of Artillery
| commands = Southern Command
| battles = {{Plainlist|
  • World War II
  • Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
  • Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

}}
| battles_label =
| awards ={{Plainlist|
  • George Medal
  • Padma Bhushan

}}
}}

Lieutenant General Sartaj Singh (died 23 April 1998) was a senior officer in the Indian Army. He was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery of the British Indian Army in 1940, and served as an anti-tank gunner in Ceylon. After completing training to serve as a gunnery staff instructor in the UK in 1947, he served as the first Indian instructor at the School of Artillery in Deolali. He served on a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Congo, and commanded a division in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1972 for his outstanding services to the nation.[1] At the time of his retirement in 1974 he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command, with the rank of lieutenant general.[2]

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1. ^{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | accessdate=July 21, 2015}}
2. ^http://www.financialexpress.com/old/ie/daily/19980424/11450884.html
{{PadmaBhushanAwardRecipients 1970–79}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Sartaj}}{{India-mil-bio-stub}}

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