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G.S. Dhillon
He was born at algon on April 4, 1915 and also attended the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun and was granted regular commission in the Indian Land Forces w.e.f. April 1940.AFter the surrender of singapore on 15.2.1942 to the Japanese, he joined then I.N.A. then organised by Capt. Mohan Singh.
When the general Court Martial commenced on November 5, 1945, photographers were excluded from the court room as soon as the accused officers were brought in Reuters, Associated Press of America and several of the British and American press covered the trial.the three accused officers were informed of the remission in the sentence of transportation for life by the commander-in-Chief on January 3rd. 1946 and they were released from Red Fort the same evening.The INA spirit began to spread in the armed forces and there were strikes by signalmen and other sections of the Indian Army.Air Force personnel, the Royal Indian Navy and hundreds of thousands of non-industrial workers.This marked a significant turning point in history of events to follow as the British could no longer rely upon the Indian sepoys to maintain their hold on India.Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru said in a speech in Bombay on 26th February 1946.
'The INA episode and the recent Royal Indian Air Force and Royal Indian Navy strikes have rendered the country a very great service.The gulf that separated people from the armed forces has once for all been bridged.The people and the soldier have come very close to each other.They have now come to realise that they bvoth have one common aim-to free their country from the foreign yoke.'
The stamp is an artist's depiction of Shah Nawaz Khan P.K. Sahgal and G.S. Dhiollon against the battlements of the Red Fort.The first day cover shows a sketch of the Red Fort dormitory where the trial was held along with the news item appearing in 'The Bombay Sentinel', of November 6, 1945. The department of Posts is issuing this special postage stamp on the trial of three senior INA officers as a mark of the nation's homage to the outstanding service rendered by three brave Indians and countless others who made the supreme sacrifice for the country's independence.
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