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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 647

Six: Major (Q.G.O.) A. Subba Gurkha Engineers, late 10th Gurkha Rifles

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Lt. Aitahang Subba. 10.G.R.); General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (Capt. Aitahang Subba. Gurkha Engrs.); Indian Independence 1947 (21141020 Sjt. Aitahang. Subba. G.R.), good very fine (6)

Aitahang Subba enlisted into 10th Gurkha Rifles in 1943 and served with the 1st Battalion in the Burma campaign. Opting for service with British Army following Indian Independence in 1947, he transferred to the newly raised Gurkha squadron of the Royal Engineers in Malaya in 1948 and was employed as the Gurkha Chief Clerk. He was in the first batch of Gurkha engineers to be commissioned as Queen's Gurkha Officers (QGO) in 1952 and appointed Head Clerk, which he continued to hold for the next fifteen years. He was promoted Gurkha Major in 1967 on appointment as Head Clerk to Headquarters Lines of Communications based in Nepal. He went to pension in 1972 and died in Nepal in 1990; sold together with typed research notes.

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£190