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VC1344    Rambahadur Limbu

Name   Rambahadur Limbu    No.      

VC Issue No.   1344   Awards   VC    MVO

Regiment   2nd/10th Gurkha Rifles (Princess Mary's)

Later   

Now   Royal Gurkha Rifles

Rank VC Won   Lance-Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Chyangthapu Village, Yangrop Thum, Nepal


Gazetted    22 April 1966

VC Presented   13 July 1966 or 12 July 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London, England

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BORN    July 1939


VC Won  21 November 1965  AGE   26

Place VC Won   Gunong Tepoi, east of Sarawak border, Indonesia

War/Campaign   Malaysia-Indonesia Confrontation

Indonesian Confrontation

Memorials

P  Named on Honours Board, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey

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


By The Way…

His Victoria Cross was stolen from him as he slept on a train journey in India



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