Soldiers from The Royal Lancers recently trained with the Royal Danish Army on Exercise Lucknow Lancer. Ahead of their deployment on Op Cabrit later this year, around 750 personnel and approximately 300 vehicles took part in the exercise in Scotland. Read more on our deployments https://www.army.mod.uk/deployments/baltics/ #UnifiedStance #WeAreNATO | British Army

On this day in 1962, Subedar Joginder Singh commanded a platoon of 20 soldiers from the Sikh Regiment at Bum La Pass during the Sino-Indian War. They were attacked by a Chinese battalion, which launched assaults in three waves of 200 soldiers each. Subedar Joginder Singh and his men repelled the first two waves, inflicting considerable casualties on the enemy. By the time the third wave approached, half of the platoon had been lost, and Subedar Joginder Singh was grievously wounded. Yet, undeter