Lives of the First World War

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ID: 8532449

Name: Publication date: 16 November 1915, Supplement: 29371, Page: 11450

Title: Victoria Cross citation, the London Gazette

Description: Gazette website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29371/supplement/11450
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ID: 8532511

Title: Feature on Forever India resource

Description: Commonwealth War Graves Commission website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/military-honours/kulbir-thapa.php
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ID: 8532513

Title: Feature on Trench Brothers educational resource

Description: HMDT Music website

Connected by: Charlotte33

URL: http://www.hmdt.org.uk/hmdtmusic/trenchbrothersteaching/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/08/Kulbir-Thapa-.pdf
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Additional: Matches Forever India website

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ID: 8533435

Title: Profile on Wikipedia.

Connected by: Trevor321

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulbir_Thapa
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ID: 8544276

Title: First Class Stamp

Description: In 2015 Royal Mail issued a commemorative stamp to Kulbir Thapa VC.

Connected by: Dave1371

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ID: 8579697

Name: see URL

Title: Tales of the V.C.

Description: The archive "Tales of the VC" comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. - See more at: http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/contributions/5488#sthash.m312BgGu.dpuf

Connected by: Lizbet72994

URL: http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en/contributions/5488
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ID: 9354588

Title: Portrait photograph of Kulbir Thapa

Description: Rifleman Kulbir Thapa, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, awarded the Victoria Cross, South of Fauquissart, France, 25/26 September 1915.

Connected by: Charlotte33

Additional: IWM Collections VC 709

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ID: 9474252

Title: 1/1st Gurkha Rifles attacking a trench

Description: This photograph was taken in a training area at Merville, 10 kilometers north of Bethune. It conveys the appearance of men in the Gurkha regiments at that time.

Connected by: Keith1947

Additional: Sourced via the British Library. H. D. Girdwood collection of propaganda photographs produced for the Government of India in 1915. Shared and re-used for non-commercial purposes. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/series-1stgurkha-attack

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ID: 9474261

Title: Kit inspection

Description: '1-4th Gurkhas at kit inspection showing kukris.' Photographed at Le Sart, 10km north of Bethune

Connected by: Keith1947

Additional: Sourced via the British Library. H. D. Girdwood collection of propaganda photographs produced for the Government of India in 1915. Shared and re-used for non-commercial purposes. https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/gurkhas-at-kit-inspection

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