Patrick Dunn

Lieutenant-General Patrick Oswald Dunn (29 May 1911 – 16 September 1977) was an Indian Army general. He commanded the I Corps during the Indo-Pak War of 1965 for which he was awarded the third-highest award of India - the Padma Bhushan.

Personal life An Anglo-Indian, Dunn took a law degree from Cambridge University. He was married to Bonny, who died in the early 1970s.

Career

Pre-Independence He was commissioned in the British Indian Army on 15 July 1938 from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. As was customary, on 10 August 1938 he was attached to a battalion of a regular British Army regiment, the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment, for a period of one year prior to his official appointment to the Indian Army.

He served in 7/10 Baluch during the Burma Campaign.

Dunn attended Staff College, Camberley in 1945, and commanded a Gorkha battalion from November 1946.

General officer In September 1961, he was promoted to the acting rank of major general and appointed Chief of Staff, Southern Command, with Lt Gen Jayanto Nath Chaudhari, OBE, as GOC of the Command.

Over the 1960s, he served as the Colonel of the Regiment for the 3rd Gorkha Rifles. He succeeded Maj Gen Yadunath Singh, and was himself succeeded by Lt Gen Sagat Singh.

On 17 December 1962, he was given command of an infantry division. In January 1964, he was appointed Deputy Chief of General Staff (DCGS), He was then appointed Director of Staff Duties (DSD) from that date until April 1965, when he commanded troops in the Rann of Kutch following Pakistan's Operation Desert Hawk.

Dates of rank