Lance Naik (LCpl) Albert Ekka

While he was posted in the 14th Battalion of Brigade of the Guards,which was tasked to capture an pakistani position in Gangasagar during the 1971war India-pakistan war,while moving towards the pakistani post his company was soon under intense shelling and heavy small-arms fire,but still they continued but soon the Indian troops have to bear huge casualties because of one LMG being firing from the one of the pakistani Bunker but despite of personal safety L/Nk Albert Ekka charged on the enemy bunker bayoneting two enemy soldiers and silenced the LMG,though now he was seriously injured he continued to fight with enemy and cleared bunkers one by one located in the area of 1.5 Km when they met with an MMG firing from an second storey of an building and once against disregrad of his own safety he charged on the bunker and attacked on the enemy killing one enemy soldier and injuring the other but still the MMG was firing,Ekka scaled a side wall, entered the bunker, bayoneted the enemy soldier holding the MMG nest, and silenced the MMG.And by this he saved his fellow soldiers from the MMG and ensured that the mission will be completed but he lost his live and this Gallant act was rewarded with Param Veer Chakra.




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