British and World Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Subadar-Major Digbahadur Rai, 2-3rd Gurkha Rifles

1914-15 Star (No. 1899 Sepoy, 2/3/Gurkha Rfls.); British War and Victory Medals (1899 Rfmn., 2-3 Grks.); Jubilee 1935 (Sub-Maj. Dikbahadur Rai, B.M.P.) fine and better (4) £100-140

The first Gurkha to be awarded the Victoria Cross was from 2-3 G.R. in France, 1915. A second V.C. was awarded to a Gurkha soldier of the same battalion for operations in Palestine in 1918. These were the only two Victoria Crosses to be awarded to Gurkhas in the First World War.