Gan Sihe. Gan Sihe (1915-1988), a native of Hong'an County, Hubei Province, died at the age of 73.
He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in 1929, and in 1930 he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he served as a soldier, squad leader, and platoon leader of the 73rd Division of the Red 25th Army, a guard of the Quartermaster Department of the Red 31st Army, a clerk of the Military Department, and a military political commissar Zhan Caifang, an organization officer of the Organization Department of the Political Department of the Red Fourth Front Army, the head of the Organization Unit of the Political Department of the 35th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Red 4th Army, an operational staff officer of the Headquarters of the 31st Army of the Red Army's Aid to the Western Army, and a student of Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University; He participated in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" and anti-"siege" operations in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui and Sichuan-Shaanxi revolutionary base areas, as well as the Long March of the Red Fourth Front Army and the three crossings of snow-capped mountains and grasslands.
Order of August 1, 2nd degree.
During the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he successively served as the confidential secretary of the Political Department of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the director of the General Affairs Division (director *** Political Commissar of the 3rd Detachment and 3rd Army Division of the Southern Hebei Military Region (detachment leader and commander Gao Houliang), director of the Political Department of the Military Division (Commander Gao Houliang, political commissar Li Dingzhuo), and political commissar of the Fuxi Detachment of the Southern Hebei Military Region (detachment leader Zhao Haifeng).
In 1943, he returned to Yan'an Party School to study, and in 1945, he was elected as a representative of the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Order of Independence and Freedom, 2nd degree.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to southern Hebei and successively served as deputy political commissar of the 9th Army Subdivision of the Southern Hebei Military Region (Commander Zhang Weihan, Political Commissar Li Fuxiang), deputy political commissar of the 3rd Army Subdivision (Commander Fan Chaoli, political commissars Li Fuxiang and Jiao Shanmin), and deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the 14th Column of the North China Military Region (Commander Wei Jie, Political Commissar Gan Weihan).
In February 1949, he served as deputy political commissar and director of the Political Department of the 70th Army of the People's Liberation Army (the commander was absent, and the political commissar was Gan Weihan).
Order of Liberation of the 1st Degree.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as political commissar of the Special Forces Command of the North China Military Region, political commissar of the artillery of the North China Military Region (1950), deputy director of the Cadre Department of the Military Region (1953), and director of the Cadre Department of the Beijing Military Region (1955).
He was elected first. Member of the 3rd, 4th and 5th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
In 1955, he was awarded the rank of Major General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Degree, the Order of Liberation of the First Class, and the Order of Merit of the Red Star of the First Class.
Mrs. Yin Yaozhong, birth and death are unknown.
Group photo of Gan Sihe and Yin Yaozhong.
Brief introduction of some of the characters involved in the article:
Gao Houliang (1915-2006), a native of Xinxian County, Henan Province, was the founding major general of the People's Republic of China.
Li Dingzhuo (1914-1987), a native of Hong'an County, Hubei Province, was promoted to major general in 1961.
Zhao Haifeng (1914-1947), a native of Quzhou County, Hebei Province, was a martyr.
Zhang Weihan (1906-1979), a native of Guantao County, Hebei Province, was the founding colonel of the People's Republic of China.
Li Fuxiang (1914-1997), a native of Quzhou County, Hebei Province, later served as the chief procurator of the Henan Provincial Procuratorate.
Fan Chaoli (1914-2012), a native of Xinxian County, Henan Province, was the founding lieutenant general of the People's Republic of China.
Jiao Shanmin (1919-2010), a native of Guantao County, Hebei Province, later served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Light Industry of the People's Republic of China.