Place · border battle site · India
Walong
Walong at the confluence of the Lohit and the Dalai is the easternmost permanently inhabited settlement in India, and the site of the only Indian-held sector in the eastern 1962 war where the Chinese PLA was pushed back before being overrun. 11 Brigade under Brigadier NC Rawlley held Walong from 22 October to 16 November 1962 against the PLA 130th Division across the Lohit; the counter-attack of 14 November 1962 by 6 Kumaon and 4 Sikh briefly recaptured the Yellow Pimple ridge before artillery and air-support shortages forced the withdrawal. The Walong War Memorial, built in 2015, lists 830 Indian dead; the annual pilgrimage from across the north-east on 14 November is the largest 1962-war commemoration anywhere.
- Function
- Military & resistance
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 28.150, 97.017
Connections (1)
- Site adjacencySela Pass
Walong and Sela Pass are the easternmost and western-central strategic positions of the 1962 Sino-Indian war on the eastern front, and the two Indian defensive sectors whose fall or near-fall defined the war's outcome. Sela's abandonment on 17 November 1962 by 4 Infantry Division opened the Tawang-Bomdila road to the Chinese 55th Division; Walong's defence by 11 Brigade from 22 October to 16 November 1962 against the PLA 130th Division across the Lohit was the only sector where the Chinese advance was briefly reversed. Both lost positions were handed back under the unilateral Chinese ceasefire of 21 November 1962.
Sources
Standard reference.
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