丁麟章是湖南平江人。1926年参加农民协会和农民自卫队。1929年加入中国共产党,同年参加平江县游击队,历任班长、中队长。1930年7月和8月,他率游击队参加了红军第三军团两次攻打长沙之役。1931年,丁麟章所在游击队编入红军平江警卫团,他任第一营副营长,为保卫平江县苏维埃机关,参加过十多次战斗,三次负伤。 Ding Lin Zhang Ping Hunan is. In 1926 to participate in peasant associations and peasant self-defense team. In 1929 to join the Chinese Communist Party, the same year to participate in Pingjiang County guerrillas, served as squad leader, squadron leader. In July and August 1930, he led the guerrillas to participate in the Battle of Changsha with two attacks on the Third Corps of the Red Army. In 1931, Ding Lin Zhang Guer where the guerrillas incorporated into the Red Army Pingjiang Guard Corps, he served as the first battalion commander, to defend the Pingjiang County Soviet authorities, participated in more than 10 battles, three wounded.