Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37107/supplement/2831. Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 5th March 1945 at Snowden East, near Tamandu, Burma, a section was pinned down by heavy enemy fire and was also being subjected to sniping from a tree. Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung killed the sniper and later when the section was again attacked, he dashed forward under continuous fire personally clearing four enemy foxholes and he also silenced a light machine-gun. With the help of a Bren gunner and two riflemen he then repelled an enemy counter-attack on the captured bunker with heavy losses. His action in clearing these positions was decisive in capturing the objective.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37107/supplement/2831. Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. On 5th March 1945 at Snowden East, near Tamandu, Burma, a section was pinned down by heavy enemy fire and was also being subjected to sniping from a tree. Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung killed the sniper and later when the section was again attacked, he dashed forward under continuous fire personally clearing four enemy foxholes and he also silenced a light machine-gun. With the help of a Bren gunner and two riflemen he then repelled an enemy counter-attack on the captured bunker with heavy losses. His action in clearing these positions was decisive in capturing the objective.