S. M. Shrinagesh

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General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya
Personal details
Born(1903-05-11)11 May 1903
Burma)
64th Indian Infantry Brigade
6/19 Hyderabad (now 6 Kumaon)

Hyderabad, Hyderabad State
from 1957 to 1959.

Early life and education

Shrinagesh was born in

H.E.H. Mir Sir Osman Ali Khan Asaf Jah VII, the Nizam of Hyderabad. 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 University of Cambridge
in 1921.

He was among the earliest batches of Indians to be nominated for the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in England. He won the Quetta Cup for the best man at arms entering the Indian Army in 1923.

Military career up to 1939

From Sandhurst he was subsequently commissioned a second lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 29 August 1923.

Burma until it was disbanded.[7] In 1933, he joined the 4th battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment and served in Singapore as its adjutant from December 1935 to December 1939.[8] In December 1939, he was posted as an instructor at the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun
.

Later career

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

19th Indian (Dagger) Division in Burma from August 1945. He was selected to go to Germany as deputy chief of the Indian Military Mission in November 1945.[9]
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).

He was then appointed the first Indian commandant of the Kumaon 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 World War II Japan and served in that post till 1947. He was also brigade commander of the famous Lushai Brigade in Burma in 1947.

On his return from Japan, he was promoted to acting

lieutenant general in 1950. He was then appointed the GOC-in-C Southern Command and held that post, till he assumed charge as the Army Chief on 14 May 1955. He was decorated with the U.S. Legion of Merit in September 1955.[11]

General 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 1957 to 1959, he also served as the principal of the Administrative Staff College in Hyderabad.

Personal life

In 1934, Shrinagesh married Rajkumari Kochhar (14 April 1915—24 January 2017),[12][13] with whom he had three sons and two daughters. One son, Satish, also joined the Indian Army, retiring as a major.[12]

Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in the late 1950s,[12] 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 including the Chief of the Army Staff Tapishwar Narain Raina.[14][15]

Awards and decorations

General Service Medal 1947 Indian Independence Medal 1939–1945 Star
Burma Star War Medal 1939–1945 India Service Medal Legion of Merit
(Commander)

Dates of rank

Insignia Rank Component Date of rank
Second Lieutenant British Indian Army 29 August 1923[6]
Lieutenant British Indian Army 30 November 1925[16]
Captain British Indian Army 30 August 1932[17]
Major British Indian Army 30 August 1940[18]
Lieutenant-Colonel British Indian Army December 1942 (acting)
27 March 1943 (temporary)[19]
Colonel British Indian Army November 1945 (acting)[9]
Brigadier British Indian Army December 1946 (acting)
Major Indian Army 15 August 1947[note 1][20]
Major-General Indian Army 3 September 1947 (acting)[10][note 1]
Lieutenant-General
 Indian Army 1948 (acting)[note 1]
Lieutenant-Colonel Indian Army 30 August 1949[21][note 1]
Lieutenant-General
 Indian Army 26 January 1950 (recommissioning and change in insignia)[20][22]
General
(COAS)		 Indian Army 14 May 1955[1]

Further reading

  • Issar, Satish K. (2009). General S. M. Srinagesh, New Delhi: Vision Books,
    ISBN 81-7094-741-3

Notes

  1. ^
    Ashoka Lion
    replaced the crown, with a five-pointed star being substituted for the "pip."

External links

References

  1. ^ a b "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 11 June 1955. p. 113.
  2. ^ "Devon, destiny, drama in the skies". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 13 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Satyavant Mallannah Shrinagesh - Munzinger Biographie".
  4. ^ "The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum".
  5. ^ "S. M. Shrinagesh". Udayavaani. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. ^ a b "No. 32858". The London Gazette. 31 August 1923. p. 5911.
  7. ^ "No. 33018". The London Gazette. 6 February 1925. p. 858.
  8. ^ October 1939 & April 1940 Indian Army Lists
  9. ^ a b Indian Army List for April 1946 (Part 2). Government of India Press. 1946. p. 1688.
  10. ^ a b "Five More Indians Promoted Major Generals" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. 3 September 1947. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  11. ^ "General Shrinagesh Received U.S. Legion of Merit" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. 2 September 1955. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  12. ^ a b c "Showers of love as Army's grand old lady turns 100". The Tribune (Chandigarh). 15 April 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Rajkumari Shrinagesh". The Times of India. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  14. ^ "General S.M. Shrinagesh Passes Away" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. 27 December 1977. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  15. ^ "General Shrinagesh Cremated" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. 28 December 1977. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  16. ^ "No. 33124". The London Gazette. 15 January 1926. p. 374.
  17. ^ "No. 33871". The London Gazette. 7 October 1932. p. 6337.
  18. ^ "No. 34993". The London Gazette. 15 November 1940. p. 6570.
  19. ^ Indian Army List for October 1945 (Part I). Government of India Press. 1945. pp. 137A.
  20. ^ a b "New Designs of Crests and Badges in the Services" (PDF). Press Information Bureau of India - Archive. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 August 2017.
  21. ^ "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)" (PDF). The Gazette of India. 24 September 1949. p. 1375.
  22. ^ "Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch)". The Gazette of India. 11 February 1950. p. 227.
Military offices
Preceded by
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command

1949-1953 		Succeeded by
K. S. Thimayya
Preceded by
Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command

1953-1955
Preceded by
Kumar Shri Rajendrasinhji
 Chief of the Army Staff
1955-1957
Government offices
Preceded by
Governor of Assam

1959–1960 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Governor of Assam

1961–1962 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Governor of Andhra Pradesh

1962–1964 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur
Governor of Mysore

1964–1965 		Succeeded by
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