The successful creation of New China is inseparable from countless enthusiastic men who gave up their original lives to embark on the road of revolutionary salvation, and by the time of the grand award in 1955, there were many elderly people with high moral standing among more than a thousand founding generals. Today we will take stock of the oldest founding marshals, generals, admirals, lieutenant generals and major generals.
First of all, the oldest marshal is naturally Mr. Zhu, who was born in 1886, joined the League at an early age, was 36 years old when he joined the party, and has been an important leader of our army since the Nanchang Uprising. By the time the title was awarded, Mr. Zhu was already 69 years old.
The eldest general will be Zhang Yunyi, born in 1892, at the age of 17 joined the League, participated in the Huanghuagang Uprising and the Xinhai Revolution, which is not much in our army, and later he led the Baise Uprising, and founded the Red Seventh Army, after which he experienced the Long March, the War of Resistance and Liberation, and was 63 years old when he was appointed founding general in 1955.
The eldest general, Tao Zhiyue, was born in the same year as Zhang Yunyi, and later studied at the Baoding Army Officer School, and has been serving in the Nationalist Army since the Northern Expedition, and in 1948 he led a rebellion to make great contributions to the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang and avoided countless civilian casualties, so he was awarded the rank of founding general.
The eldest founding lieutenant general, Fu Lianzhang, was born in 1894, he was not a fierce general who charged into the battlefield, but a red Huatuo who saved countless lives, he served as the director of the Changnai Gospel Hospital in his youth, and later he directly changed the hospital to the Central Red Hospital, when he was 39 years old. During his revolutionary career, he has been responsible for the medical and health work of the army, becoming one of the important founders of medical care in New China, and he was 61 years old when he was awarded the title in 1955. The oldest founding major general, General Shi Kequan, also born in 1892, has been serving as the chief steward of the Red Army, responsible for the logistics of the troops. He was also 63 years old when he was awarded the title in 1955.