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Galwan Day was marked on Tuesday at the Galwan War Memorial, where Maj Gen Sachin Mehta, VSM, General Officer Commanding of the 3 Infantry Division, led a solemn wreath-laying ceremony. He laid a wreath at the eternal flame and saluted the soldiers who fell in the Galwan Valley.
This year carries a double weight. It is the sixth anniversary of the clash, and the first anniversary of the memorial itself, which was dedicated to the nation on 07 December 2025.
A Galwan Day shaped by the new memorial
The setting matters. Last year the homage was paid without a permanent structure to gather around. This time the ceremony took place at a finished memorial, its busts garlanded, its courtyard laid in stone against the bare Ladakh ridgeline.
Mehta walked the line of busts honouring the fallen before the wreath was laid. Behind him, ranks of soldiers from the formation stood in the cold.
The 3 Infantry Division, the Trishul Division, holds the ground where the Galwan Valley meets the Line of Actual Control. The Fire and Fury Corps, the Leh-based XIV Corps, is the higher formation. Both trace a direct line to the events of June 2020.
What happened in the Galwan Valley
On the night of 15 June 2020, Indian and Chinese troops fought at close quarters in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed. It was the deadliest confrontation between the two armies in over four decades, and it reset the posture along the LAC.
The men who died there are the bravehearts the ceremony honoured.
The Galwan War Memorial in its first year
The memorial sits in the forward area near the valley, an eternal flame at its centre and busts of the fallen ringing the courtyard. It was opened to the nation in December 2025.
For a formation that loses the road to the outside world for months each winter, a memorial of this kind close to the line carries its own meaning. The homage no longer has to travel.
Why Galwan Day endures
The army did not let the day pass quietly. The formation framed the ceremony around courage shown under extreme adversity and devotion to duty in the highest traditions of the service.
The sacrifice of the Galwan soldiers fed directly into the heavier deployment, the faster infrastructure push and the hardened posture that have defined eastern Ladakh since. That posture has not eased.
The original announcement was made by the Fire and Fury Corps on its official handle.
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