Lan Cardozo.

 well come to Lan Cardozo ,indian army officer.

major general Lan Cardozo AVSM SM  is a former indian army officer. He was the first war- disabled  of  the indian army  to  command a brigade. he is amputee due to a war injury.

early life.

Lan Cardozo was born to Vincent Cardozo and Diana (nee de Souza) Cardozo in 1937 in Bombay ,Bombay presidency, British india. he studied at st.xaviers high school, fort and St. Xavier's college, Mumbai.

military career .

Cardozo graduated from the national defence academy and then  attended the  indian  military  academy, from where he joined the 5 Gurkha rifles (frontier force) and  he was  commissioned and later commanded the 1th battalion of the 5th regiment of gorkha rifles aka 1/5g (ff) or 1/5 Gurkha  rifles. He has also served with 4/5 gorkha rifles and has fought two wars alongiside them-indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and the indo-pakistani war of 1971. he is the  first NDA cadet to receive both gold and silver medals. The  gold  medal is given to the cadet of the passing out course for best all round performance.

the silver medal is given to the cadet who in order of merit .for the first time in the  history of the national defence academy, the  cadet who was awarded the gold medal was also first in order of merit. this has happened only one more time thereafter.(source: general himself and from his profit)

    pakistani-bangladesh war of 1971.

at the outbreak of the  Pakistani- Bangladesh war of 1971,cardozo was attending a course at the defence services staff college, wellington. his battalion, 4/5 Gorkha rifles ,was already deployed in the eastern theatre of operations. the battalion second-in -command was killed in citron and  Cardozo was ordered to replace him. He arrived at his  battalion in time  to accompany them on the  indian army's first heliborne  operation during the battle of Sylhet. he was popularly named cartoons sahib by his Gorkha regiment as they found it difficult to pronounce his first name .cartoons means a cartridge in Hindi.

after the fall of dhaks, Cardozo stepped on a land mine and his  leg was critically injured .due to non-availability of morphine or pethidine, and absence of medics ,his  leg could not be amputated surgically .he subsequently used his khukri to amputate his own leg. afterwards, his unit captured a Pakistan army Surgeon .Muhammad Basheer ,who operated on Cardozo. however, the veracity of the  account has  been questioned by brigadier (retd) rattan Kaul stating that Cardozo stepped on a mine set up by his own forces ,Hince was a battle accident casualty and was brought to battalion medical post and captain DK Sengupta, regimental medical officer was the one who cut hanging ligament, later, a Pakistani surgeon amputated his ankle in a Pakistani hospital in Sylhet. According to rattan Kaul, there were several witnesses to the event.  rattan Kalus version was also produced at the instance of press council of india in newspaper, the Hindu on august 2,2023.