Rifleman Jas Bahadur Thapa VrC

During 1948, Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa’s unit was deployed in J & K and was in the thick of operations against the Pakistani forces. As part of ongoing operations, on 27 June 1948, 2/3 GR was tasked to capture Pir Kanthi feature to thwart the enemy's advance in that area, under the leadership of Major Kaptan Singh Rana. The attack was launched in the night of  27/28 June 1948, and Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa was made part of the team that was assigned the task.  During the attack on the Pir Kanthi feature, Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa was in the forward section of a leading platoon. However the advance of the platoon was held up by three enemy LMG posts. Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa sensing the criticality of the situation decided to neutralize the LMG post. 

 

Without caring for his safety, Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa crawled forward to one of the posts with the intention of neutralizing it by grenades. As he crawled forward, he came under heavy shower of enemy grenades and was seriously wounded. Not caring for his life, he continued crawling forward and completed his mission by throwing two grenades into the enemy LMG post and silencing it.  However he soon succumbed to his injuries and was martyred. But his heroic action enabled the rest of his platoon to move forward and capture the objective. Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa showed outstanding courage and grit with utter disregard to his personal safety and laid down his life at the age of 18 years in the line of his duty. Rfn Jas Bahadur Thapa  was given the gallantry award, “Vir Chakra” for his commendable bravery, devotion to duty and supreme sacrifice.

 

On 27 June, 1948, during an attack on the Pirkanthi feature, Rifleman Jas Bahadur Thapa was in the forward section of a leading platoon. The platoon was held up by three enemy LMG posts. Rifleman Jas Bahadur Thapa crawled forward with the intention of throwing grenades into one of the enemy posts but he came under heavy shower of enemy grenades and was seriously wounded. Not caring for his life, he continued crawling forward and completed his mission by throwing two grenades into enemy LMG post and silenced it.

 

Though he died a little later, he enabled the rest of his platoon to move forward and capture the objective. By this action he showed courage, complete disregard for his personal safety and high sense of duty.