"On 18/19 September 1944 at San Marino, Italy, when a company of the 9th Gurkha Rifles
encountered bitter opposition from a German prepared position, Rifleman
Sher Bahadur Thapa and his section commander, who was afterwards badly
wounded, charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun. The rifleman then
went on alone to the exposed part of a ridge where, ignoring a hail of
bullets, he silenced more machine-guns, covered a withdrawal and rescued
two wounded men before he was killed."
From Rifleman Thapa's Victoria Cross citation, awarded on December 26, 1944.
A true skillful ally,
Brian & Mel
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