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About Deva Bandhumasena
- Colonel Phraya Songsuradej (Thai: ??????????????) (12 August 1892 – 1 June 1944, common name Deva Bandhumasena (??? ?????????) was a Thai military officer and member of Khana Ratsadon (People's Party).
- As a cadet he studied military science in Imperial Germany, and was a leading member of the senior army officers responsible for the Siamese coup d'Ă©tat of 1932 (Siamese revolution of 1932).
- After the revolution of 1932 he has conflicts with Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who was a junior military officer in many serious matters so all these conflicts became the allegations in the subsequent of Songsuradet rebellion.He was born in a military family on 12 August 1892 at his father's home on Charoen Krung Road, Phra Nakhon Province (later Bangkok) near to the present's Territorial Defense Command.
- His father was an artillery officer named First Lieutenant Tai Bandhumasena (?????? ??? ?????????), who served in the 1st Battery of Artillery.
- While he was studying in the Royal Military Academy (later Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy) his parents suddenly died.
- He therefore got his older brother to be a benefactor, with being an excellent student therefore received a scholarship to study the army engineer science in Imperial Germany.
- Upon graduation, he received the rank of Fähnrich (Private First Class).
- After that, he continued his studies at the commissioned military level until he received the rank of Degen-Fähnrich (Acting Second Lieutenant) and entered the military service in Magdeburg, later he returned to Siam (later Thailand) in the year 1915, total of 8 years of living in Imperial Germany.
- Fluent in both Thai and German. In Siam, he is an engineer who has played a huge role in constructing railways in many regions of the country, such as northern line from Khun Tan Tunnel to Chiang Mai Province etc.
- He received the highest rank as a Colonel and highest duty was Chief of Directorate of Operations in 1932 shortly before the revolution.
- Which all plans in the revolution, he is all thinking and planning himself and did not reveal to anyone before until one day before actual action.
- Because he is a highly respected person in the military circles as a military academic.
- He is regarded as one of The Four Musketeers (???????????; consist of Phraya Songsuradej, Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Phraya Ritthiakhaney and Phra Phrasasphithayayut) which is the highest leaders of Khana Ratsadon.
- Sulak Sivaraksa, political critic and thinker said that he is the smartest and most talented of these four. He was exiled to Indochina in January 1939 following a rift with the Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram.
- Phraya Songsuradej died on 1 June 1944 at an abandoned mansion in Phnom Penh with sepsis (but with conspiracy theory that he died due to being poisoned).
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