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Spotlight

A Room with a

Window

Medical help for defence personnel - Representative
photograph

Brig Ajit Apte (Retd) tells us the story of William and Rita Bhatnagar,
the civilian doctor couple who provided yeoman service to Steel City

Gunners

It was during one of my golf rounds that I
met Brig PK Bhuyan, a distinguished and
reputed AMC Veteran on the 19th hole for
breakfast. We had played a different four
ball but knew each other. During our
coffee session he said: “Ajit I believe you
had served in Jamshedpur beforeI came
there as the RMO with 97 Field Regiment
from July 1977 to June 1981.” That’s right, I
said and felt happy that the regiment after
mine had been posted a Medical Officer
integral to the unit.
My thoughts raced back like a rewind
nearly fifty years back, as I recalled
memories when soon after the 1971 India-
Pakistan War (Liberation of Bangladesh),
my Regiment 14 Field had returned
from Khulna on December 20 and just
rendezvoused at our temporary peace Drs Rita and William Bhatnagar in their young days

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