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Portrait of Brigadier Kodandera Subayya Thimayya

Thimayya, Kodandera Subayya

Brigadier

* 31st of March 1906

† 18th of December 1965

(19th Hyderabad Regiment)

(Indian Army)

Nickname: Timmy

Promotions

1944-05-19 Acting Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-08-19 Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel
1945-04-01 Acting Colonel
1945-04-01 Acting Brigadier
1945-10-01 War Substantive Lieutenant-Colonel
1945-10-01 Temporary Colonel
1945-10-01 Temporary Brigadier
1947-08-15 Major
1950-01-01 Major-General (Dated Back to 1949-02-04)(Army of India)
1953-01-XX Lieutenant-General (Army of India)
1957-05-08 General (Army of India)

Service

1944-05-19 1945-04-01 Commanding Officer 8th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment
1944-12-11 1945-01-13 Acting Commanding Officer 51st Indian Infantry Brigade [Burma]
1945-04-01 1945-04-30 Commanding Officer 36th Indian Infantry Brigade [Burma]
1945-04-30 1945-07-24 Sick leave
1945-07-24 1945-09-01 Commanding Officer 36th Indian Infantry Brigade
1945-09-01 1946-12-XX Commanding Officer 268th Indian Infantry Brigade
1946-12-XX Member of the Indian Armed Nationalisation Committee
1947-06-XX Commanding Officer 5th Indian Infantry Brigade
1947-09-11 1948-01-14 General Officer Commanding 4th Indian Division
1948-XX-XX General Officer Commanding Punjab Boundary Force
1950-01-26 General Officer Commanding 19th Indian Division
1950-01-26 Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the President of India
1950-05-15 1951-06-15 Commandant of the Indian Military Academy
1951-09-01 1953-01-XX Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters
1953-01-XX 1953-05-XX General Officer Commanding in Chief Western Command [India]
1953-XX-XX Chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (NNRC) in Korea
1955-05-15 General Officer Commanding in Chief Southern Command [India]
1956-09-17 General Officer Commanding in Chief Eastern Command [India]
1957-03-08 1957-05-08 Officiating Chief of the Army Staff, Army Headquarters
1957-05-08 1961-05-07 Chief of the Army Staff, Army Headquarters
1961-05-07 Retired
1964-06-XX Recalled
1964-07-XX 1965-12-XX General Officer Commanding United Nation Forces in Cyprus