General P. P. Kumaramangalam
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General P P Kumaramangalam DSO, MBE |
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| Chief of Army Staff (India) | |
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In office 8 June 1966 – 7 June 1969 |
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| Preceded by | General JN Chaudhuri |
| Succeeded by | Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 July 1913 Kumaramangalam, Madras Presidency, British Raj |
| Died | 13 March 2000 (aged 86) Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
| Relations |
P. Subbarayan (Father) Mohan Kumaramangalam (Brother) |
| Awards |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 British India (1933-1947) India (after 1947) |
| Service/branch |
 British Indian Army Indian Army
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| Years of service | 1933–1969 |
| Rank |
 General
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| Unit |
 Regiment of Artillery
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| Commands |
 Eastern Army
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| Battles/wars |
World War II Indo-Pakistan War of 1947 Sino-Indian War Indo-Pakistan War of 1965 |
General Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, DSO, MBE (1 July 1913 – 13 March 2000) was the 7th Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army from 1967 to 1970. He was among the last of the King's Commissioned Indian Officers trained in England in the Indian Army, and the last KCIO Indian Army Chief.
P P Kumaramangalam was born to the Former Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, P. Subbarayan in the zamindari family of Kumaramangalam in Tamil Nadu. He had his secondary education at Eton College and was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Woolwich as a Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Indian Army on the 31 August 1933. He was appointed to the British Indian Army on 12 November 1934, and was promoted to Lieutenant on 2 May 1935.
Kumaramangalam was promoted to Captain on 2 February 1941. During World War II, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) as a temporary major for action in Libya on 27 May 1942 at Point 171, south of Bir Hakiem commanding the 7th Field Battery, 2nd Field Regiment, Indian Artillery. He was taken Prisoner of War (PoW) by the Italians later in 1942 and held in a PoW camp in Italy. With the Italian Armistice in September 1943 he escaped on 19 November; however he was captured again in January 1944 and imprisoned, this time in Germany, where he was transferred to Stalag Luft III a high security camp for PoWs. At the end of the war in 1945, he returned to India.
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