FIRST
STIRRINGS
lt gen jfr jacob
Lt Gen JFR Jacob, the
only Jew to have risen to the highest echelons of the Indian Army, speaks of a
bygone era
He hails from a family that migrated to
India some 200 years ago and he proved himself a great warrior. One of the
heroes of the 1971 war, he led India to a decisive victory and retired as the
Army Commander of the Eastern Command. He later went on to serve as
the Governor of Goa and Punjab.
But behind all this there is the story of an officer
who was on the verge of putting in his papers. But General PP Kumaramangalam,
the last of the Sandhurst-trained King’s Commissioned Indian Officers in the
Indian Army who later went on to be the seventh Chief of the Indian Army
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