A Gurkha NCO's Far East Prisoner of War, Indian Independence & Malaya 'Emergency' medal group of 6: Colour-Sergeant Bhakta Gurung, 2nd Battalion 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)

- 1939-1945 Star. No clasp
- The Pacific Star. No clasp
- War Medal
- General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (21133018 C/Sjt. Bhakta Gurung 2 G.R.);
- Military LSGC Medal. EIIR with 'Regular Army' bar (21133018 C/Sgt. Bhakta Gurung, 2 G. R.)
- India: Independence Medal 1948 (21133018 C/Sgt. Bhakta Gurung. G.R.)

Far East Prisoner of War: Prior to transferring to British Service on 1 January 1948, his service records confirm continuous service with 2nd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles of 13 years 41 days - 2/2 GR having been captured at the fall of Singapore Colony on 15 February 1942 - his accompanying copied service records refer to his 'Pacific Star', which combination was only earned by 2/2 GR fatal casualties and Far East Prisoners of War

The medals mounted on card for display purposes. The Indian Independence medal, mounted in wrong order of precedence with reverse uppermost!

Medals and clasp verification: Post 1939 campaign, long service & commemorative medal rolls for Gurkha Rifles regiments are not accessible in the public domain. However, all of Colour-Sergeant Bhakta Gurung's entitlement to the campaign medals and clasp here offered are confirmed as per the accompanying service record and note from Officer in Charge Records of the Brigade of Gurkhas

Bhakta Gurung was a Nepalese soldier of Gurkha ethnicity, who was born in 1915 and joined the Indian Army on 21 November 1934 on which date he was posted to the 2nd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles of the then British Indian Army and serving in that army through to and including 31 December 1947. He then transferred service to the British Army, on 1 January 1948, staying with 2/2 Gurkha Rifles. Bhakta Gurung continued to serve in India until 23 October 1948 (being retained at the British Army Gurkha Centres in India) before embarking for service in Malaya between 24 October 1948 and 21 November 1949. Bhakta Gurung extended his service in the British Army, and his ervice staement shows multiple subsequent postings / tours in Malaya & Singapore until he was discharged from the British Army on 14 January 1956

Sold together with some hardcopy photocopied service records including a cropped typed letter from Major G. H. Ashley OIC Records Brigade of Gurkhas confirming the above details

A most desirable and hard earned group to a long serving loyal Gurkha soldier who during the Second World War had been incarcerated as a Far East Prisoner of War

Condition: About GVF

Code: 24325