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Ati Vishist Seva Medal    &  Uttam Yudh Seva Medal


As with the PVSM and the SYSM, the awards for distinguished service in wartime at a secondary level was fulfilled by the AVSM and from 1980 onwards the UYSM.
  • Till date only four UYSMs have been awarded to the IAF including three for the recent Kargil Conflict.
  • Most of the AVSMs for wartime service were during the 1971 War. Staff Officers, Base Commanders and some Squadron Commanders were given this Medal for distinguished leadership and service during the war.
  • One Awardee, Wg Cdr D M Conquest received two awards. He was given an AVSM as well as a VrC, a unique achievement.
  • Only two Air Force Officers, Air Chief Marshal LM Katre and Air Marshal PS Ahluwalia, have ever been given 'Bar' to their AVSMs.
  • Only one Non-Commissioned Officer was ever awarded an AVSM - Sgt V R Kantheti, an Air Force Safety Operator.
  • Atleast six Sqn Ldr rank officers were also awarded the AVSM. No Awards were made to ranks lower than Sqn Ldr.
List of AVSM Awardees
Award details for the year 1992 are not available in the database
List of UVSM Awardees

 

The War time AVSM and UYSMs are listed below

AVSM

1965

Air Cmde

A R Pandit

SASO, Eastern Air Command

Wg Cdr

Krishna Dandapani

CO 230 Signal Unit, Amritsar

Sqn Ldr

Lakhmir Singh

230 Signal Unit, Amritsar

1971

Air Cmde

Gian Dev Sharma

1742

F(P)

Air Cmde

Bawa Sampuram Singh Bedi

1795

AE(M)

Air Cmde

Solomon Purushottam

1928

F(P)

Air Cmde

Harcharan Singh Bakshi

2083

ADM

Air Cmde

G K Singha

2361

AE(M)

Air Cmde

Kanwar Singh

2781

F(P)

AOC, Rajasthan Area.

Air Cmde

Trilochan Singh Brar

2884

F(P)

Air I, Air Ops, WAC HQ

Air Cmde

Surinder Singh

3009

F(P)

Air Cmde

Krishna Mohan Ram AVSM

3101

F(P)

Air I, Air Ops, EAC HQ

Air Cmde

Jafar Zaheer

3173

F(P)

Air Cmde

C S Naik VSM

3499

AE(M)

Air Cmde

Amrit Lal Saigal

3608

AE(M)

Gp Capt

Gurdial Singh Punia

2134

ADM

Gp Capt

Audrey Leslie Michael

3416

F(P)

Dte of Offensive Ops, Adv HQ

Gp Capt

Ramesh Chandra Jain

3546

AE(L)

Gp Capt

Emmaneul Fernandes

3577

F(P)

Gp Capt

Amrit Dev Datt

3789

AE(M)

Gp Capt

S K Nair

3803

AE(M)

Gp Capt

Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chabbra

3831

F(P)

CO, 4 TAC , 15 Corps, J & K

Gp Capt

Prem Pal Singh, MVC

3871

F(P)

Air I, Air Ops, CAC HQ

Gp Capt

Mohan Badami

3888

F(P)

Wg Cdr

V Krishnamurthy, VM

4022

F(P)

Stn Cdr, Uttarlai

Wg Cdr

Mohinder Singh Bawa , VM

4494

F(P)

Stn Cdr, Jaisalmer

Wg Cdr

Ranjit Dhawan VM

4572

F(P)

CO, No. 220 HF-24 Marut Sqn.

Wg Cdr

V B Sawardekar , KC

4593

F(P)

CO, No. 29 MiG-21 Sqn.

Wg Cdr

Upkar Singh

4658

F(P)

CO, No. 1 MiG-21 Sqn.

Wg Cdr

S P Sabharwal

4413

F(P)

Wg Cdr

Krishan Kumar Badhwar

4669

F(P)

CO, No. 35 Canberra Sqn.

Wg Cdr

Donald Melvyn Conquest

4692

F(P)

CO, No.122 Hunters (OCU)

Wg Cdr

K C Khanna VM

4722

F(P)

CO, No. 101 Sukhoi Sqn.

Wg Cdr

K G Radhakrishnan

4956

AE(M)

UYSM

1989 I P K F

Air Cmde

Manmohan Singh Vasudeva

1999 Kargil

A V M

Satinder Singh Dhillon

7980

AE(M)

A V M

Jagnandan Kumar Pathania

8053

ADM

A V M

Narayan Menon

9005

F(P)

 


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