I Corps (India)

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I Corps
Active1965-Present[1]
Country India
Branch Indian Army
RoleStrike Corps
Part ofSouth Western Command (India)
Garrison/HQMathura
EngagementsIndo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Commanders
Current
commander		Lieutenant General Manoj Kumar Katiyar
Notable
commanders		General Joginder Jaswant Singh
General Vishwa Nath Sharma
Indian Army Corps (1947 - Present)
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I Corps is a military field formation of the Indian Army. The Corps is headquartered at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh. It was raised on 1 April 1965. It was still being raised when it was despatched to the front in 1965. Raised as the First Strike Corps of the Indian Army, it was launched into operations in the Sialkot sector. The Corps conducted a counteroffensive during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. In the 1971 war against Pakistan, it took part in the Battle of Basantar.[2]

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971[]

During 1971, the composition of the corps was:[3]

Present Day[]

Today it is a 'Strike Corps' within the Indian Army's South Western Command (Jaipur, Rajasthan).

The I Corps of South Western Command, created in 1965 and headquartered at Mathura, consists of the following 4 army divisions:

List of General Officers Commanding[]

Lt Gen Manoj Kumar Katiyar taking over as the General Officer Commanding of ‘Strike 1’ from Lt Gen CP Cariappa, 5 April 2021.
Rank Name Appointment Date Left Office Unit of Commission References
Lieutenant General Patrick Oswald Dunn May 1965 January 1967 3rd Gorkha Rifles [5]
Jahangir Tehmursap Sataravala January 1967 August 1971 13th Frontier Force Rifles
Khem Karan Singh August 1971 November 1973 16th Light Cavalry [6]
Sagat Singh November 1973 November 1974 3rd Gorkha Rifles
D.K. Chandorkar December 1974 March 1978 Rajputana Rifles
Jaswant Singh March 1978 January 1980 Punjab Regiment
Tirath Singh Oberoi January 1980 August 1981 Punjab Regiment, Parachute Regiment
Harish Chandra Dutta August 1981 August 1982 8th Gorkha Rifles
Anand Sarup August 1982 August 1984 8th Gorkha Rifles [7]
Vishwa Nath Sharma October 1984 March 1986 16th Light Cavalry [8]
Y.S. Tomar March 1986 June 1987 The Grenadiers
R.N. Mahajan June 1987 December 1988 Kumaon Regiment [9]
R. Sharma December 1988 January 1991 2nd Lancers [10]
V.K. Singh January 1991 April 1992 Madras Regiment [11]
Y.M. Bammi April 1992 July 1993 4th Gorkha Rifles
A.S. Sandhu July 1993 April 1995 Deccan Horse
Vijay Oberoi April 1995 June 1997 Maratha Light Infantry
Rajendra Singh Kadyan August 1997 January 2001 Rajputana Rifles
J.J. Singh January 2001 December 2002 Maratha Light Infantry [12]
Tej S Pathak December 2002 May 2004 Parachute Regiment [13]
Susheel Gupta May 2004 April 2006 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles [14]
P.C. Katoch April 2006 October 2007 Parachute Regiment [15]
Tejinder Singh October 2007 October 2008 Brigade of the Guards
S.R. Ghosh October 2008 November 2009 Brigade of The Guards [16]
A. K. Singh November 2009 April 2011 7th Light Cavalry [17]
Ashok Singh May 2011 August 2012 Brigade of The Guards [18]
P.R. Kumar August 2012 August 2013 Regiment of Artillery, Army Aviation Corps [19]
Ravindra Thogde August 2013 September 2014 1st Gorkha Rifles [20]
Ashok Bhim Shivane September 2014 October 2015 7th Light Cavalry [21]
Shokin Chauhan 8 October 2015 November 2016 11th Gorkha Rifles [22]
Ranbir Singh 30 November 2016 29 December 2017 Dogra Regiment [23]
Taranjit Singh 29 December 2017 25 January 2019 65 Armoured Regiment [24]
Amardeep Singh Bhinder 25 January 2019 3 April 2020 Deccan Horse [25]
Codanda Poovaiah Cariappa 3 April 2020 5 April 2021 Rajputana Rifles [26]
Manoj Kumar Katiyar 5 April 2021 Incumbent 23 Rajput Regiment [27]

Notes[]

  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20040306004515/http://www.orbat.com/site/orbats/data/india/armycorps2003.html
  2. ^ "Archive of One Strike Corps of Indian Army in Mathura opens tomorrow". The Economic Times. 11 July 2018.
  3. ^ National Defense University, Indian I Corps Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20001124/haryana.htm
  5. ^ "PIB press note" (PDF). 1965-11-09. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  6. ^ "Lt Gen Khem Karan Singh: An outstanding military leader". 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  7. ^ "Lt Gen Anand Sarup retires" (PDF). 1987-03-29. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  8. ^ "GENERAL V.N. SHARMA". Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  9. ^ "Lt Gen Mahajan appointed DCOAS" (PDF). 1988-12-11. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  10. ^ "Lt Gen R Sharma is new DCOAS" (PDF). 1991-08-02. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  11. ^ "Know Your Army". 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  12. ^ "Gen J J Singh new GOC-in-C of Western Command". 2004-02-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  13. ^ "Gen Vij takes over tomorrow". 2002-12-29. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  14. ^ "GOC-in-C on two-day city visit". 2006-03-15. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  15. ^ "Lt Gen Katoch visits Cantonment". 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  16. ^ "Lt Gen SR Ghosh to be GOC-in-C of Western Command". 2009-11-12. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  17. ^ "Cover Story : Mutual Respect". 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  18. ^ "Lt Gen Ashok Singh takes over as Southern Army commander". 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  19. ^ "Army Aviation Corps Colonel Commandant". Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  20. ^ "LIEUTENANT GENERAL RAVI THODGE TAKES OVER REINS OF 1 CORPS". 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  21. ^ "Lt Gen A B Shivane, PVSM, AVSM, VSM". Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  22. ^ "Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan". 2019-10-05. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  23. ^ "Lt General Ranbir Singh promoted to GOC Strike 1 Corps, AK Bhatt new DGMO". 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  24. ^ "Lt General Taranjit Singh assumes Command Of Strike 1". 2017-12-29. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  25. ^ "Amardeep Bhinder takes command of Strike One Corps Mathura". business-standard.com. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  26. ^ "Lieutenant general C P Cariappa takes over Mathura based based command of first strike corps". 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  27. ^ "Lt Gen Manoj Kumar Katiyar takes charge of Mathura-based Strike 1 Corps". Outlook (India). Retrieved 2021-04-05.

References[]

  • Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, 'Indian Army Order of Battle,' Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, ISBN 978-0-9820541-7-8, 2011.
  • www.globalsecurity.org
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