Train named after VC recipient Gurkha Tulbahadur Pun

Train named after VC recipient. Great Western Railway (GWR) names a train in honour of Tulbahadur Pun, one of only 13 Gurkha soldiers to have received the Victoria Cross.
Pun’s son Arjun and daughter Megh Kumari will be joined at London Paddington by guests including actress Joanna Lumley OBE, whose father Major James Rutherford Lumley was Pun’s commanding officer during the Second World War.
Pun was 21 and serving as a Rifleman in the 3rd Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles when his heroism at Mogaung, Burma, led to him receiving the highest honour for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Having seen several members of his platoon killed during an attack on a railway bridge on June 23 1944, Pun continued the charge alone, killing three enemy soldiers and forcing five more to flee.
He then gave accurate supporting fire, enabling the rest of his platoon to reach the bridge. Later rising to the rank of Honorary Lieutenant, Pun was awarded 10 other medals including the Burma Star.
GWR set out to mark last year’s 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two by naming seven of its Intercity Express Trains after remarkable people involved in the conflict.