Lt.ColonelMonodhirChoudhary, called Monty by friends was born on 17 Sept. 1920, in a town now Arunanchal Pradesh, when his father was with the Frontier Services in the British Period. The Choudharys belong to Sylhetdistict( now in Bangleshdesh) and later their Badi-Home in Shantipara in Dibrugarh town in Assam became the ancestral home. Colonel Choudhary was commissioned on 25th July in 1943,initially in the Baluch Regiment ( now with the Pakistani Army ) and later with the Ordnance Corps. Col Choudhary now lives alone in shillong.