Heroic Group

Nepalese Gurkha Rambahadur Limbu of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, attends a reunion dinner of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association at the Cafe Royal in London, three days after receiving the Victoria Cross, 15th July 1966. He was awarded the medal for his bravery in the Indonesian Confrontation in Borneo. With him are the only three living female holders of the George Cross, (left to right): French Resistance heroine Odette Hallowes, nurse Dorothy Louise Thomas who prevented an explosion at the Middlesex Hospital, and WAAF Daphne Pearson who rescued the pilot of a crashed aircraft. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)