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Rifleman Kulbir Thapa

2/3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles

Date of Action: 25/26 September 1915

Place of Action: Fauquissart, south of Manquisart, France

Date and Place of Birth:  15 December 1889; V. Nigalpani, Palpa, Nepal; son of Haria Gulte

Enrolled:  15 December 1907

CITATION

Rifleman Kulbir Thapa of the 2nd Battalion of 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles won the Victoria Cross "for most conspicuous bravery during operations against the German trenches South of Manquisart.

"When himself wounded, on the 25th September 1915, he found a badly wounded soldier of the 2nd Leicester Regt. behind the first line German trench, and, though urged by the British soldier to save himself, he remained with him all day and night. In the early morning of the 26th September, in misty weather, he brought him out through the German wire, and leaving him in a place of comparative safety, returned and brought in two wounded Gurkhas one after the other. He then went back in broad day-light for the British soldier and brought him in also carrying him most of the way and being at most points under the enemy's fire." (London Gazette, 18 November 1915)

A link to Kulbir Thapa on Mike Chapman's VC pages.