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Indian Army – Kargil War 1999 v.2.1 April 22, 2012 Mandeep S. Bajwa Additional units by Ravi
Rikhye
The
740-km line of control was divided into the Southern, Central, and Northern
Sectors. The war was fought in the Northern Sector which consisted of four
subsectors: Partapur Kargil (including Batalik) Shingo
(Kaksar) Dras Northern Command
Photo credit PVS Jagan Mohan http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Badges-Divisional.html XV Corps XV Corps Artillery
Brigade
Photo credit PVS Jagan Mohan http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Badges-Divisional.html HQ 8 Mountain Division (ex Sharifabad,
Valley) 8 Mountain Artillery
Brigade (division artillery) 121(Independent) Infantry Brigade Group (Kargil)
(normally assigned to Kargil sector) 16 Grenadiers 4 Jat 3 Punjab 10 Garhwal BSF Bn Det 17 Guards (ATGM) 56 Mountain Brigade (Matayan) 16 Grenadiers 18 Grenadiers (Grenadier Yoginder Singh Yadav, PVC) 8 Sikh 1 Naga 2 Raj Rif 18 Garhwal 13 JAK Rif (2 PVC, Capt.
Vikram Batra, posthumous; Rflmn.
Sanjay Singh) 1/3 GR 9 Para Cdos Det 17 Guards (ATGM) 50 (Independent) Parachute
Brigade (ex Army HQ Reserves) 6 Parachute 7 Parachute 1 Parachute Commandos Det 19 Guards (ATGM) 192 Mountain Brigade (part
of division) 18 Grenadiers 8 Sikh 9 Para Cdos Det 17 Guards (ATGM) 79 Mountain Brigade (Dras) 17 Jat 28 RR 12 Mahar 13 JAK Rif 2 Naga 9 Para Cdos Det 17 Guards (ATGM)
PAKISTANI TROOPS AT PRAYERS,
KARGIL WAR 1999 Muslims must wash before
prayer, at least their hands. But there are exceptions for people such as
soldiers: hands can be washed with sand or clean dirt. The soldier in the
foreground is a Junior Commissioned Officer, perhaps in command of a platoon. Photo credit http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5065
Captain Karnal
Sher Khan and Havaldar Lalak
Jan, both of 12 NLI, posthumously received Pakistan highest gallantry award,
the Nishar-i-Haider for the Battle of Tiger Hill 3 Infantry Division (Leh)
Photo credit PVS Jagan Mohan http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Badges-Divisional.html
3 Artillery Brigade
(divisional artillery) 70 Infantry Brigade Group (ex Demchok, China border)
http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/war_in_kargil.pdf 1 Bihar 4/3 GR 22 Grenadiers 12 JAK LI 10 Para Cdos 1 Bihar Indus Wing Ladakh Scouts Karakoram Wing Ladakh Scouts 17 Garhwal 5 Para 14 Sikh Det 19 Guards (ATGM) 4 Field Artillery 15 Field Artillery 307 Medium Regiment
THIS LOCALITY WAS IN THE 3 DIVISION AREA.
HEIGHTS ARE IN METERS. stratmag.com/issueDec-1/page07.htm 102 (Independent) Infantry Brigade Group (Shyok
River Valley) (normally
under command 3 Division) 11 Rajputana
Rifles 9 Mahar 13 Kumaon 27 Rajput Det High Altitude Warfare School Permanent
Cadre Det 19 Guards (ATGM) Kargil Theatre Artillery (these arty units took
part in the War serving under various formations)
BOFORS 155mm IN ACTION Photo credit BBC Lt = Light; Fd = Field; Med = Medium; Hvy Mor = Heavy Mortar 4 Fd
Regt 15 Fd
Regt 41 Fd
Regt 108 Med Regt 139 Med Regt 141 Fd
Regt 153 Med Regt 158 Med Regt 197 Fd
Regt 212 Rocket Regt 244 Hvy
Mor Regt 253 Med Regt 255 Fd
Regt 286 Med Regt 305 Med Regt 307 Med Regt 315 Fd
Regt 1861 Lt Regt 1889 Lt Regt Other battalions (higher HQ unclear) This list is compiled from
newspaper and casualty reports. 5 Special Frontier Force (Vikas Force) 663 Reconnaissance &
Observation Squadron 668 Reconnaissance &
Observation Squadron 1/11 GR (Batalik
sector, Capt. Manoj Kumar Pandey,
PVC (Posthumous) 13 Punjab 12 Grenadiers 22 Grenadiers 7 Jat? 14 Sikh LI
? 9 Rashtriya
Rifles 14 Rashtriya
Rifles 17 Rashtriya
Rifles 11 Sikh 3 J&K Rifles 16 Dogras Dogra Scouts 5 Rajput 9 Mahar
Photo credit www.armypublicschool.com/martyrs_gallery.asp 3 of 6 graduates of the Army
Public Schools killed at Kargil. From left to
right, these officers belonged to 17 Jats; 2 Rajputana Rifles; and 9 Mahar.
The photograph of Captain Nayyar must be just after
his commissioning in June 1987; Lieutenants Thapar
and Verma were commissioned in December 1998. All
three were perhaps 22-23 years of age. NOTES
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