64 Field Regiment (India)

The regiment was raised in Belgaum on 01 Oct 1962 under Lieutenant Colonel Bhag Singh Jaswal as 64 Mountain Regiment.^[1][2][3]

The unit is the only pure Gorkha artillery regiment in the Indian Army. Unlike other artillery regiments, the gunners wear the Gorkha hat instead of the navy blue beret.^[1][4][5]

The regiment has taken part in the following operations –

• Sino-Indian War: The regiment fought at Bomdila in North-East Frontier Agency.^[3]
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Dharam Pall Dhillon participated in the north western sector of erstwhile East Pakistan during the war.^[1] It was equipped with 75/24 Pack Howitzers and was under 20 Mountain Artillery Brigade of the 20 Mountain Division.^[6][7] It took part in the battles of Gobindoganj and Bogra.^[8][9][10]

• Counter insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir

• During the 1971 war, Captain Surjit Singh Parmar of the regiment earned a Vir Chakra.^[1][11][12] Lieutenant Colonel Dharam Pall Dhillon and Captain Naresh Kumar Srivastava were mentioned in dispatches.^[13]
• The regiment was awarded the GOC-in-C (South Western Command) unit citation in 2014.^[14]
• COAS Commendation Card^[15]