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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 377

Six: Captain (KGO) B. Thapa, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, who was a Prisoner of War in the Far East

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1937-39 (6829 Rfn. Bhimbahadur Thapa, 2-2 G.R.); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Lt. Bhimbahadur. Thapa. 2 G.R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., Regular Army (408515 Lt. (KGO) Bhimbahadur Thapa 2 G.R.), official corrections to first and last, very fine, the last rare (6)

Bhimbahadur Thapa served as a Rifleman with the 2nd Gurkha Rifles on the North West Frontier (Medal & clasp) and would have been taken a Prisoner of War at Singapore when the 2nd Battalion went 'in the bag' in 1942. Having risen to be Regimental Sergeant-Major, he was commissioned Lieutenant (KGO) on 1 October 1949. His L.S. & G.C. followed on 31 October 1951, thence serving in Malaya in that rank (Medal & clasp), before being made Captain on 5 September 1953. He retired on 28 January 1957.

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£230

Starting price
£160