{"id":32251,"date":"2025-04-17T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=32251"},"modified":"2025-05-28T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:02:03","slug":"macgregor-memorial-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/macgregor-memorial-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"MacGregor Memorial Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>MacGregor Memorial Medal Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Five military personnel were recently conferred the MacGregor Memorial Medal by Chief of Defence Staff for outstanding contributions in military reconnaissance, exploration and adventure for the years 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>About MacGregor Memorial Medal<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was<strong> instituted on 03 July 1888 to commemorate<\/strong> the memory of <strong>Maj. Gen. Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor<\/strong>, the <strong>founder of the United Service Institution of India (USI).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Initially this medal was awarded <strong>for military reconnaissance and journeys of exploration<\/strong> such as British Army expeditions in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Burma.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>After independence, <\/strong>it was decided to award this medal <strong>for adventure activities as well.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The medal is <strong>open to all ranks, serving and retired, of the Indian Armed Forces, Territorial Army, and Assam Rifles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Among the <strong>notable recipients <\/strong>of this in the past are <strong>Capt F E Younghusband <\/strong>(1890), Maj. Gen. Orde Charles Wingate (1943), <strong>Maj. ZC Bakshi,<\/strong> VrC (1949),<strong> Col. Narinder Kumar for Siachen Glacier exploration<\/strong> (1978-81) and Cdr. Dilip Donde and Lt. Cdr. Abhilash Tomy for their solo global circumnavigations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the United Service Institution of India (USI)?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>national security and defence services think tank<\/strong> based in <strong>New Delhi,<\/strong> India.<\/li>\n<li>It was f<strong>ounded in Simla in 1870 by Col. (later Maj Gen) Charles Metcalf MacGregor<\/strong>, to advance military knowledge and professional development among British Indian Army officers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the<strong> oldest autonomous think tank in India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its mission encompassed promoting knowledge in the art, science, and literature of national security, with a particular focus on the Defence Services.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/five-military-personnel-honoured-with-macgregor-memorial-medals\/article69457233.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MacGregor Memorial Medal, established on 03 July 1888, honors Maj. Gen. Sir Charles MacGregor, founder of the United Service Institution of India (USI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":32252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-32251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-macgregor-memorial-medal","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}