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Rifleman Ganju Lama, MM

7th Gurkha Rifles

Date of Action: 12 June 1944

Place of Action: Ningthoukhong, Impal, Assam/Burma

Date and Place of Birth:  22 July 1922, Sangmo village, Busty tehsil, Sikkim, son of Kinchuk Lama

Enrolled:  27 July 1942

Retired:  as Captain, living in Sikkim, India, in 1997

CITATION

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London Gazette, 7 September 1944

\He was earlier awarded the MM and would later receive the PD.

The picture to the left was taken ca. 1 July 1997, at the reunion of the VC and GC Association. At that point in time, Ganju Lama was confined to a  wheelchair.

A link to Ganju Lama on Mike Chapman's VC pages.