Qualla: Battle of Bau https://qualla.com/battle-of-bau en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Bau https://qualla.com/battle-of-bau Battle of Bau: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-bau/ It took over an hour to crawl fifty yards. Sixteen Gurkha soldiers inched up a sheer-sided ridge through Borneo jungle so dense they could hear the Indonesian sentries above them but barely see the sky. When one of those sentries spotted them at ten yards and opened fire, Lance Corporal Rambahadur Limbu rushed the machine gun pit with a grenade. What followed on 21 November 1965 near the town of Bau in Sarawak was one of the most extraordinary small-unit actions of the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation, and it earned Limbu the last Victoria Cross awarded to a Gurkha soldier in the twentieth century.

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/n/r/battle-of-bau-wp/w2nr-battle-of-bau-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Bau: Borneo's Undeclared War https://qualla.com/battle-of-bau/ The Confrontation was a strange, shadow conflict. From 1962 to 1966, Indonesia sought to prevent the creation of Malaysia by launching cross-border raids into the British-protected territories of Sarawak and North Borneo. It was never declared a war, and most of its engagements w...

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]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/2/n/r/battle-of-bau-wp/w2nr-battle-of-bau-the-ridge-at-gunong-tepoi.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Bau: Grenades and a Bren Gun https://qualla.com/battle-of-bau/ When the sentry opened fire and the element of surprise vanished, the battle became a close-quarters fight up a jungle hillside. Limbu destroyed the first machine gun with a grenade, then exposed himself to enemy fire to report the situation to his platoon commander before return...

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