It is with sad regret that I post the following information.
A former Gurkha soldier who won the Victoria Cross and was later the figurehead for a campaign on Gurkha's rights to settle in the UK, has died.
Tul Bahadur Pun died in his home village of Myagdi, in Nepal, aged 88.
He received the Victoria Cross for saving the lives of dozens of his comrades in Burma during WWII.
In 2009 he campaigned for Gurkha's rights alongside actress Joanna Lumley, who credited him as having saved her own soldier father's life in 1944.
Mr Pun died at the official age of 88. However, birth records were inaccurate in the country at the time and his real age is believed to be 92
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