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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 428

Six: Captain B. Limbu 7th Gurkha Rifles

Burma Star; War Medal 1939-1945; India Service Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62 (Capt. Bhaidal. Limbu. 7.G.R.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. Regular Army (388575 Lt. (KGO). Bhaidal Limbu. 7 G.R.); India Independence Medal (388575 Jem. Bhaidal Limbu G.R.), mouted as worn, minor official correction to rank on G.S.M., traces of verdigris, very fine (8)

Bhaidal Limbu was born in 1914 and would have enlisted in the 1930s. The 1st Battalion served in the Burma campaign with Limbu being promoted Jemadar in 1946 and Captain (King's Gurkha Officer) in 1949. On transfer to the British Army in 1948, he was posted to the 2nd Battalion due to a shortage of Gurkha officers. Retired 1954 and continued to be shown in the Army List for Retired Officers to 1999.

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