[2][3] Trần Quý Hai was born in 1913 as Bùi Chấn to a poor peasant family in Châu Sa commune, Sơn Tịnh district of Quảng Ngãi province.

He took part in revolutionary movements since early ages and joined the Indochinese Communist Party in October 1930.

[3] When Chấn's prison term was over in mid-1944, the colonial authorities sent him to Ba Tơ exile house where he and his comrades like Trương Quang Giao, Phạm Kiệt [vi], Trần Lương and Nguyễn Đôn [vi] clandestinely established the Provisional Provincial Party Committee of Quảng Ngãi.

Together with other comrades in the committee, Bùi Chấn led Ba Tơ uprising [vi] in March 1945, then August Revolution in Quảng Ngãi successfully.

[3] In 2008, LTG Trần Quý Hai was posthumously awarded Gold Star Order.