High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat VC, PVSM (14 October 1918 – 23 May 1975) was an officer in the Indian Army during World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, and the PVSM, India`s highest military service award. The Victoria Cross was conferred on him for his actions in the Sudan theatre during the World War II. General Bhagat is an alumnus of the famous Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun.