


He was made the school prefect in view of his all-round performance and he lived up to this school motto, “Never Give In” even after becoming an army officer. He studied from the Lawrence School, Sanawar located in Kasauli hills in Himachal Pradesh and did very well in academics as well as sports. His great grand father had been in the Sikh army and fought against the British, while his grand father had served in the British Army during World War I. As several generations of his family had served in the armed forces, the love for the Army life came naturally to him. Khetarpal and Mrs Maheshwari Khetarpal, 2nd Lt Arun was the eldest of their two sons. Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal was born on 14th October 1950 in Pune into a military family.
