60 Parachute Field Ambulance

Medics tending a wounded soldier, for the unit’s golden jubilee.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue August 10, 1992

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½ x 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1362 Stamp Number IN 1419 Yvert et Tellier IN 1160 Stanley Gibbons IN 1512

Themes Aircraft, Anniversaries and Jubilees, Aviation, Military Forces, Parachute Jumping, Red Cross and Red Crescent

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Two medical orderlies with red crosses on their helmets tending a wounded soldier, with a parachute, aircraft and an ambulance behind them, and the words “60 Para Field Ambulance” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

60 Parachute Field Ambulance

India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 10 August 1992, fifty years to the day after the unit was raised as 60 Indian Field Ambulance at Secunderabad. It served in Burma and became a parachute unit in 1945. In Korea, with the United Nations forces from November 1950, it won two Maha Vir Chakras and six Vir Chakras, under Lt Col A. G. Rangaraj, MVC. It later served in Goa in 1961, in the air-borne operation at Tangail in 1971 and in the Maldives in 1988.