• I Royal Gurkha Riflemen, B.O. Major John Cotterill and Major Piers Hutt Wreath Laying at "Monte Pulito" in Memory of Sher Bahadur Thapa V.C.
• Deposizione corona dal "I Royal Gurkha Riflemen" in memoria di Sher Bahadur Thapa V.C.

FROM FAR NEPAL TO PAY TRIBUTE TO WAR HERO THAPA

From far Nepal to Faetano to pay their respects to national Sher Bahadur Thapa who died18 September 1944 on the slopes of Monte Pulito during battle action for which he was awarded posthumously of the Victoria Cross, the highest British military decoration.

Last Saturday 7 October 2006 a group of Nepali nationals has come to honour those Gurkha rifleman who fell in the Gothic Line offensive and who now rest in the Commonwealth War Cemetery near Cerasolo Ausa.

The Nepali visitors have been escorted by Rimini’s historian Amedeo Montemaggi and by San Marino’s Piero Bacciocchi as representative of Faetano’s town council as well as of  Faetano’s bank Ente Cassa.

Local authorities are planning the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to rifleman Thapa considering the historical importance of his sacrifice. In fact recurrently British officers and veterans as well as Nepali nationals come to pay tribute to the Gurkha war hero died in the vicinity of Monte Pulito at the age of 21.