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Shrinagesh retired on 7 May 1957, completing 34 years of distinguished military service. Post retirement, he served as the governor of Assam from 1959 to 1962, then as the governor of Andhra Pradesh from 1962 to 1964 and finally as Governor of Mysore (now Karnataka) from 1964 to 1965. From
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in Burma from August 1945. He was selected to go to
Germany as deputy chief of the Indian Military Mission in November 1945. In that capacity, he also worked as the economic adviser and consul looking after the interests of Indian nationals in Germany and locating missing Prisoners of War (POWs).
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in the late 1950s, Shrinagesh succumbed to the disease in the morning of 27 December 1977 at the Army
Hospital Delhi Cantonment. Survived by his wife and children, he was cremated with full military honours in New Delhi the following day, with his funeral attended by senior military officers
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Regimental Centre in Agra on 2 October 1946 and served in that capacity till 12 December 1946. He was then chosen to lead the 268th Infantry Brigade British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in post
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on 3 September 1947 and was appointed the general officer commanding of the Madras Area. From
January 1948, he was appointed the adjutant general at the Army Headquarters and held that post till August of the same year. Promoted to acting
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Sandhurst he was subsequently commissioned a second lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 August 1923. After the mandatory one year attachment to a British regiment in India, in his case the 1st Battalion of the
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During the Second World War, from 17 December 1942 till 28 August 1945, Shrinagesh was the commanding officer of the 6/19th
Hyderabad Regiment (now 6th Kumaon). He then officiated as the brigade commander of the
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Rajkumari Kochhar (14 April 1915—24 January 2017), with whom he had three sons and two daughters. One son, Satish, also joined the Indian Army, retiring as a major.
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Command and held that post, till he assumed charge as the Army Chief on 14 May 1955. He was decorated with the U.S.
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and held this command till the ceasefire on 1 January 1949. He was chosen as the GOC-in-C Western
Command on 15 January 1949 and promoted to the substantive rank of
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646:. His mother was Ahalyabai, daughter of Krishnaji Kelavkar. Born in 1903 at Kolhapur, Maharashtra he went to West Buckland School in England and entered the
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General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command
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1691:"New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services"
1476:"General Shrinagesh Received U.S. Legion of Merit"
1293:. The Gazette of India. 11 June 1955. p. 113.
1676:. Government of India Press. 1945. pp. 137A.
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1447:"Five More Indians Promoted Major Generals"
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1884:Governor of Andhra Pradesh
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1973:Indian Army (1947–1948)
1960:Chief of the Army Staff
1806:Chief of the Army Staff
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1172:General S. M. Srinagesh
1038:December 1946 (acting)
1018:November 1945 (acting)
684:19th Hyderabad Regiment
648:University of Cambridge
618:Shrinagesh was born in
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16:Indian military officer
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2065:Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri
1894:Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
1536:"Rajkumari Shrinagesh"
996:December 1942 (acting)
775:Awards and decorations
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153:Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
129:Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
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2027:Rajendrasinhji Jadeja
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462:Years of service
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182:Bimala Prasad Chaliha
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1971:Commander-in-Chief,
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953:British Indian Army
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863:India Service Medal
858:War Medal 1939–1945
764:Parkinson's disease
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610:from 1957 to 1959.
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517:Chief of Army Staff
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1911:Governor of Mysore
1660:The London Gazette
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1600:. 28 December 1977
1571:. 27 December 1977
1540:The Times of India
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1456:. 3 September 1947
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1386:The London Gazette
1357:"S. M. Shrinagesh"
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