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VC1301    Thaman Gurung

Name   Thaman Gurung    No.      POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   1301   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Indian Army, 1st Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles

Later    

Now   5th Gorkha Rifles Frontier Force     Indian Army  

Rank VC Won   Rifleman

Rank End Of Career   Rifleman

Place Of Birth   Singla Village, Barbak No. 2 West, Gorkha District, Nepal

Place Of Death   On a hill near Monte San Bartolo, Italy

Buried/Location Ashes    Rimini Gurkha War Cemetery, (Cimitero Di Guerra Di Rimmini (Gurkha)), 6 km west of Rimini, Italy

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone    Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 3, Row B, Grave 5

Gazetted    22 February 1945

VC Presented   19 December 1945, Viceroy Lord Wavell, Red Fort, New Delhi, India

Memorials

P  Headstone, Rimini Gurkha War Cemetery, (Cimitero Di Guerra Di Rimmini (Gurkha)), 6 km west of Rimini, Italy

P  Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, Green Park, London

P  Named on Gurkha Statue, Princess Gardens, Aldershot, Hampshire

By The Way…

The name on the headstone shows name as Thamman Gurung

VC Held By

Unknown

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BORN    2 October 1924

DIED   11 November 1944   AGE    20

VC Won  10 November 1944  AGE   20

Place VC Won   Monte San Bartolo, Italy

War/Campaign   Second World War