Today marks the 69th birthday of Captain Ram Bahadur Limbu VC who was awarded it following an action on 21 November 1965 as a 26 year old Lance-Corporal of 2 Bn, 10th Princess Mary's Own Ghurka Rifles in Sarawak during the Indonesian Confrontation.
Lance-Corporal Limbu and two other Ghurkas were in the van of a sixteen strong patrol. Despite extremely difficult terrain and vegetation, they made their way up to a machine gun post on the crest of a hill. When they got within ten yards it opened fire. Limbu then ran forward alone killing a sentry with a grenade. The entrenched thirty man Indonesian platoon opened fire, seriously wounding both his comrades. Disregarding his personal safety, Limbu left cover four times despite heavy automatic fire and mortaring, to report the situation to his platoon commander, to carry the two wounded to safety, recover the Bren and then proceed to account for several more enemy soldiers.
Truly heroic.
Here's the London Gazette of 21 April 1966.
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
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