Major General Ian Cardozo was a Major in 5 Gurkha Rifles in the 1971 Bangladesh war.
Then Major Cardozo stepped on a landmine that blew off his left leg.
A captured Pakistan Army surgeon Major Mohammed Basheer operated on Maj Cardozo. Maj Basheer saved his life.
There no painkillers, like morphine or Penthidine, available to the surgeon, at the battalion camp hospital, so Maj Cardozo amputated his own leg with a khukri!
Though his amputated leg was replaced, Maj Cardozo realized his dream of a batallion command.
Maj Cardozo, with many gallantry & service decorations, retired from the Indian as Major General Ian Cardozo.
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