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	Agansing Rai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agansing Rai (VC, MM)(1920 - 2000) was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
		On 26 June 1944 at Bishenpur, [Manipur, India], Naik Agansing Rai led his section in an attack on one of two posts which had been taken by the enemy and were threatening the British forces' communications.
		Agansing Rai's VC group was later sold at auction (see External Link below).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agansing_Rai (250 words)

	AGANSING RAI VC
		Agansing Rai was born in Amsara in east Nepal on 24 April 1920.
		Naik (corporal) Agansing Rai, seeing that any delay must inevitably lead to heavy casualties to the attacking force, led his section in a charge on the machine-gun post, firing as he went, killing three of the four-man gun crew.
		Inspired by Agansing Rai's example his section swept through and secured "Mortar Bluff", only to come under renewed fire from the 37mm gun in the jungle and automatic fire from the enemy still firmly in possession of "Water Piquet".
	www.victoriacross.org.uk /bbrai2.htm (659 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Victoria Cross hero dies
		Gurkha Agansing Rai was awarded the British Army's highest medal for valour after he charged at three enemy Japanese guns which were wiping out his comrades, and knocked them out.
		When he was 24, Agansing Rai was an acting corporal in the Fifth Royal Gurkha Rifles fighting to keep the Japanese from crossing from Burma into India in 1944.
		Then Rai, with a grenade in one hand and a sub-machinegun in the other, single-handedly attacked and killed four Japanese soldiers firing from a bunker and inflicting heavy casualties on his fellow soldiers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/768673.stm (451 words)

	World War 2 Awards.com - AGANSING, Rai
		On June 26, 1944 at Bishenpur (Burma) Naik Agansing, led a section which task was to capture mail which formed a threat for the allied communications.
		The rest of its enemies were so demoralized by this action, they beat on the flight and the last mail could also be captured.
		Agansing Rai, cremated Dharan on 31 May 2000.
	www.ww2awards.com /person/8 (145 words)

	BBC News Online \| World \| South Asia \| Gurkha medal in London auction
		Mr Rai, who died four years ago, won the medal for his action against the Japanese in 1944.
		Born in Okhaldungha in eastern Nepal, Mr Rai was a 24-year-old corporal in the Fifth Gurkha Rifles when he led a charge on Japanese machine gun positions in Imphal, in what is now the eastern Indian state of Manipur.
		Mr Barthaud said that Mr Rai's family attended the auction, and were at the back of the room during the bidding.
	news.bbc.co.uk /nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_3916000/3916747.stm (456 words)

	:: Magar Studies Center - Naik Agam Singh Rai, VC :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Naik Agamsingh Rai, appreciating that more delay would inevitably result in heavier casualties, at once led his section under withering fire directly at the machine-gun and, firing as he went, charged the position, himself killing three of the crew of four.
		The party then returned to "Mortar Bluff" where the rest or their of their platoon were forming up for the final assault on "Water Piquet".
		Once more, with indomitable courage, Naik Agamsing Rai, covered by his Bren gunner, advanced alone with a grenade in one hand and his Thompson Sub-Machine gun in the other.
	www.magarstudiescenter.org /bravest8.php (395 words)

	VCs
		Naik Agansing Rai, appreciating that more delay would inevitably result in heavier casualties, at once led his section under withering fire directly at the machine-gun and, firing as he went, charged the position, himself killing three of the crew of four.
		Naik Agansing Rai at once advanced towards the gun,...killed three of the crew and his men killed the other two.
		Once more, with indomitable courage, Naik Agansing Rai, covered by his Bren gunner, advanced alone with a grenade in one hand and his Thompson Sub-Machine gun in the other...
	www.army.mod.uk /brigade_of_gurkhas/hqbg/vcs/index.htm (4437 words)

	Auction Activity
		The Outstanding Victoria Cross Group of Thirteen to Subedar-Major and Honorary Captain Agansing Rai, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, for `Indomitable Courage' during the Battle of Imphal a) Victoria Cross, reverse of suspension bar engraved '63219 Rfmn.
		After a preliminary artillery concentration, the company went in to attack but on reaching a false crest about 80 yards from its objective, it was pinned down by heavy and accurate fire from a machine-gun in "Mortar Bluff" and a 37 millimetre gun in the jungle, suffering many casualties.
		Naik Agansing Rai, appreciating that more delay would inevitably result in heavier casualties, at once led his section under withering fire directly at the machinegun and, firing as he went, charged the position, himself killing three of the crew of four.
	www.victoriacrosssociety.com /auctions.htm (5335 words)

	Slouch hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This slouch hat is still worn by the Australian military today.
		Naik Agansing Rai VC, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
		The slouch hat is also associated with the Gurkha regiments of the British Army and Indian Army (formerly the British Indian Army) and is still worn by the Gurkhas; the hat is no longer worn on active service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slouch_hat (558 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Newsmakers \| 6/9/2000
		DIED: Santi Chaiviratana, 55, a Thai deputy interior minister in the late 1980s, was shot and killed in front of his consultancy firm in Chiang Rai by a lone gunman.
		DIED: Agansing Rai, 81, one of five surviving Gurkhas to have won Britain's highest award for valor -- the Victoria Cross -- died in a hospital in Kathmandu, his family announced on May 28.
		Rai was awarded the VC for attacking a Japanese machine-gun post in Burma in 1944.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/magazine/2000/0609/newsmakers.html (945 words)

	Description of A's
		On 27 September 1944 at Bishenpur, Burma, Naik Agansing Rai led his section in an attack on one of two posts which had been taken by the enemy and were now threatening our communications.
		Additional information: Lieutenant Agansing Rai also held the Military Medal (M:M) Reported in the Daily Mirror (Cutting, no date.) "A Ghurka awarded the Victoria Cross for showing complete contempt for danger as he fought the Japanese in 1944 has died aged 81.
		Corporal Agansing Rai, who killed seven enemy soldiers during the battle in Burma, was one of 10 Ghurkas to win the honour in World War II.
	www.victoriacross.co.uk /descrip_a.html (5680 words)

	Guardian \| In brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Victoria Cross awarded to a Gurkha rifleman commended for courage sold for £130,000 for charity.
		The family of Honorary Captain Agansing Rai offered the medal for sale to raise funds for underprivileged children in their father's native Nepal.
		A couple who took over the Railway Inn in St Agnes, Cornwall have inherited around 100 pairs of shoes, including a pair owned by the comedian Tommy Cooper, and running shoes once worn by the British athlete Lillian Board, who won a silver medal in the 1968 Mexico Olympics but died aged 22 in 1970.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4977089-103690,00.html (190 words)

	The Scout Association : Official UK Website » Home
		He was a Scout and the Cornwell Scout Badge was introduced in his memory after his death 90 years ago.
		Rai was honoured for his bravery in action against the elite Japanese 33rd division in Burma in 1944.
		The miniature sheet contains all six stamps, with a reissued 20p Gallantry Awards stamp featuring the Victoria Cross from 1990, while the presentation pack was written by the leader of the UK forces in the first Gulf War.
	www.scouts.org.uk /news/archive/2006/May/110506.html (390 words)

	1st Gurkha VC ever to be sold - WNSO Chautari
		1st Victoria cross won by Gurkha hero Agansing Rai will be sold in auction that is being held on July 22nd.
		If he haven chose a path of luxury he could have sold it but it never occured to him.
		I read in some paper where his 2 sons and 3 daughters want that money to be given to charity in Nepal.
	chautari.wnso.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=5337 (592 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Six VCs put their stamp on history
		And as a reminder of modern heroism in Iraq and Afghanistan, the presentation pack will include a tribute by Gen Sir Peter de la Billiere, the commander of British Forces in the first Gulf war.
		Mr Adams and Col Rai with facsimiles of the new stamps
		The Royal Mail heroes include Midshipman Charles Lucas, the first person to win the VC.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/17/nvc17.xml (272 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh
		A few days ago, an ex-gunner at Ropar who had fought and had been wounded on foreign soil during the Second World War, received a telephone call from a stranger offering him Rs 500 for his campaign medals.
		The Victoria Cross and other medals awarded to Subedar-Major Agansing Rai, which were auctioned in London recently for £115,000.
		Coordinated efforts of scientists and residents of Mandhala village have scripted a success story which is worth emulating for other villages in the region.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050524/chd.htm (1498 words)

	Victoria Cross 150th Anniversary - new Great Britain stamps, miniature sheet and a prestige book 21 Sept 2006 from ...
		The recipients of the Victoria Cross shown on the stamps are:
		1st class - Agansing Rai, a Gurkha who was awarded the VC in an action against the elite Japanese 33rd Division in Burma in 1944;
		Pane 1 - Agansing Rai, Charles Lucas and Albert Ball stamps in a se-tenant strip of 3; the background shows William Bishop (1917, Albert Jacka (1915), John Leak (1916), Alfred Hook (1879), William Hall (1857), and Theodore Hardy (1918)
	www.norvic-philatelics.co.uk /2006/09-vicx.htm (1043 words)

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