In 1914, Sam Manekshaw, the Indian Army's Chief of Army Staff and the country's first Field Marshall, was born.
General of the Army Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, also known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"), was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. He lived from 3 April 1914 to 27 June 2008, and was widely known as Sam Manekshaw and Sam Bahadur ("Sam the Brave"). Beginning with service in the British Indian Army during World War II, his active military career spanned four decades and five wars.
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