A Collection of Medals to Gurkhas

Pair: Lance-Corporal Lalitbahadur Limbu, Gurkha Military Police, late 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (21148767 Rfn. Lalitbahadur Limbu. 10th. G.R.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (21148767 L/Cpl. Lalitbahadur Limbu. G.M.P.) mounted for wear, edge bruising to both medals, good very fine, the latter scarce to unit (2) £140-£180

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

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The Gurkha Military Police were formed as a support unit during the Malayan Emergency of 1948-60, alongside the Gurkha Engineers, Gurkha Signals and Gurkha transport Corps. Based at Kuala Lumpur, the Gurkha Military Police assisted the local civil police in a wide range of tasks ranging from the searching of suspects through to more routine activities such as traffic control and crime detection.

Dogs assisted the unit in many ways, most commonly in guarding installations, in the detection of drugs and weaponry, and for subduing non-compliant individuals, as well as border control between Hong Kong and China. Disbanded in the early 1970s, many of its former members later transferred to the Singapore Gurkha Contingent (Singapore Police Force) and the Brunei Gurkha Reserve Unit, the latter acting as a special guard in the Sultanate of Brunei.