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17/03/22 13:20 PM IST

RIMC turns 100

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  • Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun, previously the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, turned 100 years young. Pakistani cadets had departed from the college at the time of Partition. 
  • India’s most charismatic general and army chief, K S Thimayya (Timmy) was an alumnus. 

About RIMC 

  • RIMC was raised as Imperial Cadet College (Rajwada Camp) on March 13, 1922, with 27 cadets mainly from princely families; it also included ordinary people like Hiralal Atal, who was the first cadet captain and later became the first adjutant general of the Army.
  • He asked Savitri Khanolkar to design the Param Vir Chakra, which was won for the first time by Maj Somnath Sharma, who died in action in Kashmir in 1947.
  • Similarly, the first Indian officer to win the Victoria Cross was Prem Bhagat. Both were Rimcollians.

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