Eight: Captain Tekbahadur Thapa, 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Lt. Tekbahadur Thapa. 10. G.R.) partially officially re-impressed; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (Capt (QGO) Tekbahadur Thapa 1/10 GR); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lt. (QGO), Tekbahadur. Thapa. 10 G.R.); Indian Independence Medal 1947, unnamed, mounted for wear, nearly very fine and better (8) £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Gurkhas.

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Tekbahadur Thapa initially served as Warrant Officer Class I in the 10th Gurkha Rifles before being appointed to a commission on 4 September 1951. Awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal without gratuity in the London Gazette of 23 May 1958, his name later featured in that year’s edition of The Kukri: The Journal of the Brigade of Gurkhas:
‘In mid-December Major General Anderson paid us his annual official visit; he saw the [1st] Battalion carry out an attack exercise in conjunction with the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and RAF fighter/ground attack aircraft, together with a very realistically simulated artillery fire support programme, the latter being laid on by Lt. (QGO) Tekbahadur Thapa and his Pioneer Platoon.’

Advanced Captain 14 April 1960, Tekbahadur Thapa is recorded as taking his retirement in the London Gazette of 17 August 1965.

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