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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Nadeem Badshah

Last remaining Gurkha Victoria Cross recipient dies in Nepal aged 83

Rambahadur Limbu, pictured in 2014.
Rambahadur Limbu in 2014. The Gurkha Brigade Association said he had been a ‘figurehead and exemplar of Gurkha bravery for generations’. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty

The last remaining Gurkha recipient of Britain’s Victoria Cross has died in Nepal at the age of 83.

Rambahadur Limbu was awarded Britain’s highest military decoration by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in 1966 for gallantry during an attack on Indonesian troops on the island of Borneo during which he rescued two fellow soldiers.

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