Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36053/supplement/2719. Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa (915), 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 5th/6th April 1943 during the silent attack on Rass-es-Zouai, Tunisia, Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa, taking command of two sections, made his first contact with the enemy at the foot of a pathway winding up a narrow cleft which was thickly studded with enemy posts. The garrison of the out-posts were all killed by the subadar and his men, by kukri or bayonet and the next machine-gun posts were dealt with similarly. This officer then continued to fight his way up the bullet-swept approaches to the crest where he and the riflemen with him killed four – the rest fled. Thus secured, advance by the whole division was made possible.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36053/supplement/2719. Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa (915), 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 5th/6th April 1943 during the silent attack on Rass-es-Zouai, Tunisia, Subadar Lalbahadur Thapa, taking command of two sections, made his first contact with the enemy at the foot of a pathway winding up a narrow cleft which was thickly studded with enemy posts. The garrison of the out-posts were all killed by the subadar and his men, by kukri or bayonet and the next machine-gun posts were dealt with similarly. This officer then continued to fight his way up the bullet-swept approaches to the crest where he and the riflemen with him killed four – the rest fled. Thus secured, advance by the whole division was made possible.