Piru Singh was born on 20th May 1918 in Beri Village, Jhunjhunu district, Rajasthan. His family had a agricultural background. He was the youngest one among his family. Since his child hood he was not interested in studies. But he was admitted in school forcefully. The behaviour of his family was not able to bind him with studies.As a result; he ran away from his school and started working in the field of his father. This was the time when he started to learn about the motherland and a strong feeling of love for his nation as well as motherland grew up in the depth of his heart.

In his leisure period he used to do hunting. So, he became a profound hunter as well as a sportsperson. His interest forced him to join the Indian Army. After two unsuccessfull attempts, he sailed through in third attempt and became a part of Indian Army. Previously, he joined 10/1st Punjab Regiment on May 20 , 1936 at the age of 18. Later in 1937, he was posted to 5/1st Punjab and after partition, was transferred to 6 Rajputana Rifles.

Piru Singh was totally uneducated but his desire to serve Army forced him to take his Army education seriously and this resulted in to a victory over examinations and this man turned into Lance Naik in 1940. That was the example of firm determination. Then the growth chart of Piru Singh started to rise and very soon he became the instructor of Punjab Regiment at Jhelum in 1941. Soon he promoted to the rank of Havildar and sustained to this post till 1945.

In 1946, he got a chance to show his aptitude as he served with commonwealth occupation force in Japan and stayed there till 1947.

In 1947, Major Piru Singh expelled the Pakistani invaders from Urisector but soon they recollectd and forced the Indian Army to check out of their position across the river Kishanganga.

After this impede, Indian took the position on Tithwal Ridge and 6 Rajputana Rifles moved to Tithwal from Uri to defend that area. The two companies were made namely"D" and "C" to protect them but "C" had to lead after "D" company.

That was the calm and cool night of 18th of July and the battalion was proceeding towards its aim. They were hardly 1 metre away from their destination. The route was being watched over by the Invaiders as they took a position to defeat Indian Army. They attacked the platoon and the leaders of this company got injured and disable to proceed. In a very next moment, Piru who was the Second-in-Command took the charge of platoon with handful of his soldiers without wasting the time. He took the charge on nearest machine gun, using a war cry "Raja Ram Chandra Ki Jai". He found the bunkers of enemies and destroyed two of them. Then he proceeded with all the courage but there was written something else in the pages of his destiny. He was very near to the third trench when a bullet hit him on his head. Soon an explosion took place because his hand was full of grenade and Havildar major Piru Singh laid to the rest for ever.

That was the whole scenario how Piru Singh fought for his motherland. These brave men make the nation proud. Major Piru Singh was the second brave man who was awarded with "Param Vir Chakra" posthumously.

These valiant are born once but are remembered year after year.

The next story begins with Naik Jadunath Singh…………………………