Gurjinder Singh Suri

Captain Gurjinder Singh Suri, MVC (04 July 1974 – 09 November 1999) was an Indian Army officer of 12 Battalion of Bihar Regiment who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest gallantry award, for exemplary valor in combat during a gunbattle in the Faulad post attack in 1999.

Singh graduated from National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, and was commissioned to the Army Ordnance Corps on 7 June 1997.

[1] Singh was killed in a gun battle in the Gulmarg, Uri sector on 9 November 1999 where the Pakistani army attacked the Faulad Post.

Captain Suri immediately deployed his support group to take care of any reinforcement or interference and set out to clear the bunkers one by one.

He then lobbed two hand grenades into a bunker and entered inside spraying bullets with his AK rifle killing one enemy soldier instantly.