Vir Chakra (VrC)

When enemy infantry and tanks concentrated an attack on our troops, Captain Gurmukh Singh Gill led a patrol to provide protection to an artillery observation post officer, who was assigned the task of engaging and destroying the enemy. The patrol was within fifty yards of the enemy concentration where two infantry battalions with a squadron of tanks had formed up for an assault. Captain Gill took up a position and the observation post officer directed the troops and brought down heavy and accurate fire, which forced the enemy infantry and tanks to break up in panic and confusion. Enemy tanks thereafter charged the patrol. In the process the AOP officer was seriously wounded. Captain Gill, after administering first aid to the officer, carried him on his shoulders and fought his way back to safety.

In this action, Captain Gill displayed gallantry, initiative and devotion to duty of a high order