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Army Day - January 15
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- It is celebrated in recognition of Field Marshal KM. Cariappa's, the then a Lieutenant General.
- He took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher on 15 January 1949.
- Butcher was the last British Commander-in-Chief of India.
- Cariappa had led the Indian forces to victory in the 1947 war.
- He is one of only two Indian Army officers to hold the Five-star rank of Field Marshal.
- The other one was Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.
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