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Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria, born on November 29, 1935, in Punjab’s Jagraon district, was commissioned into the 1 Gorkha Rifles in 1957. As part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in the UN Congo Mission, he led a daring operation on December 5, 1961, to remove roadblocks near Elisabethville Airport.