- Copilot AnswerBorn22 July 1924 · Sangmo, Kingdom of SikkimAllegianceBritish India · IndiaService / branchBritish Indian Army · Indian Army
Rifleman Ganju Lama VC MM, 7th Gurkha Rifles - Burma Star …
Jul 3, 2000 · Ganju Lama, who has died aged 75, was awarded a Victoria Cross in Burma for his action on June 12 1944 when B Company, 7th Gurkha Rifles were checking a Japanese …
Ganju Lama (1924-2000) - Find a Grave Memorial
World War II Victoria Cross Medal Recipient. He served as a Subadar in the 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. At Ninthoukhong, Burma, June 12, 1944, Subadar Lama's …
Ganju LAMA VC - vcgca.org
Rifleman Ganju Lama, the No.1 of the P.I.A.T. gun, on his own initiative, with great coolness and complete disregard for his own safety, crawled forward and engaged the tanks single handed.
Ganju Lama | Military Wiki - Fandom
- Ganju Lama was born in Sangmo, southern Sikkim, India, on 22 July 1924. He enlisted in British Gurkha Army in 1942 at the age of seventeen. His parents were both of Sikkimese descent, which made him unusual, as he was neither an ethnic Gurkha nor a Nepalese subject. At that time, however, Gurkha regiments were prepared to accept any recruit who clo...
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A small Sikkim museum tells the big story of an unusual Gurkha hero
Nov 29, 2024 · Ganju Lama, an ethnic Bhutia, wangled his way into the Gurkha regiments and won a Victoria Cross in the Second World War – and proved that a true Gurkha need not …
Ganju Lama - One India One People Foundation - siesoiop.in
Jul 1, 2019 · Rifleman Ganju Lama crawled forward to within sixty yards of the enemy tanks. He fired his PIAT (projector infantry anti-tank) weapon. His second shot pierced the armour of the …
Museum honouring war hero Ganju Lama established …
A Museum dedicated to the Victoria cross awardee and war hero Late Ganju Lama has been established by his family at his ancestral Sangmoo village in South Sikkim. For knocking down two Japanese tanks with an anti-tank …
This lone Gurkha rifleman stopped three Japanese …
Oct 22, 2020 · Early model Chi-Ha tanks, like the kind Ganju Lama used to eat for breakfast. In his first contact with the Japanese outside of Imphal, he used a projectile, infantry, anti-tank (or PIAT) rifle to disable one of the tanks.
Ganju Lama, VC - The Telegraph
Jul 3, 2000 · Ganju Lama, who has died aged 75, was awarded a Victoria Cross in Burma for his action on June 12 1944 when B Company, 7th Gurkha Rifles, were checking a Japanese attack, supported by tanks,...
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