Nathu Singh Rathore

Lieutenant General Nathu Singh Rathore was an Indian Army officer from Gumanpura, Rajasthan.

[citation needed] Singh was educated at Mayo College and was nicknamed Baghi (Rebel) by his peers.

He was later sent to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in England to be trained as an officer to serve in the Mewar Army, on the request of Rajmata of Dungarpur.

[citation needed] Singh was the second Indian officer to graduate from Sandhurst, after Rajendrasinhji Jadeja who later became a three-star general.

He was instead appointed first as the Inspector-General of Training and Evaluation, and then in 1951 as the commander of the Eastern Army, a post he held till 1954.

Japanese military delegation salute Lieutenant Colonel Nathu Singh, commanding officer of the Rajput Regiment , following their surrender of Islands, 1945