The IX Corps, or the Rising Star Corps, was raised in 2005 as a Holding Corps at the Yol Military Station of the Indian Army.
Lt Gen PN Ananthanarayanan, SM takes over command of 9 Corps on 26 March 2021.
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IX Corps (India)
…The IX Corps, or the Rising Star Corps, was raised in 2005 as a Holding Corps at the Yol Military Station of the Indian Army. It was raised on September 1, 2005, by splitting the southern formations of Nagrota-based XVI ‘White Knight’ Corps, which forms part of the Udhampur-based…
No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery with RML7 pounder "Steel Gun" Mountain Gun in Review Order. Left to right Naick, Havaldar, Subadar (Sikhs) and Gunner (Punjabi Musalman) c. 1895.
Indian Cavalry on the Western Front during World War I.
A Sikh soldier of the 4th Division (the Red Eagles) of the Indian Army, attached to the British Fifth Army in Italy. Holding a captured Nazi flag after the surrender of German forces in Italy, May 1945. Behind him, a fascist inscription says "VIVA IL DUCE", "Long live the Duce" (i.e. Mussolini).
Major General El Edroos (at right) offers his surrender of the Hyderabad State Forces to Major General (later Army Chief) J.N. Chaudhuri at Secunderabad