General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya DSO (31 March 1906 –
18 December 1965) was a distinguished soldier of the Indian Army who
served as Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961 in the crucial years
leading up to the conflict with China in 1962. Gen. Thimayya was the
only Indian to command an Infantry brigade in battle during the Second
World War and is regarded as the most distinguished combat officer the
Indian Army has produced. After the Korean War, Thimayya headed a
United Nations unit dealing with the repatriation of prisoners of war.
After his retirement from the Army, he was appointed Commander of the
United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus from July 1964 to December
1965 and died in Cyprus while on active duty on 18 December 1965.
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