On the morning of June 25, in an exchange with Lao Dong reporters, a leader of Kim Lien ward (Hanoi City) confirmed that Colonel, Hero of the People's Armed Forces La Van Cau passed away on June 24, 2026 (ie May 10, Binh Ngo year).
According to the dossier on people with meritorious services, Hero La Van Cau was born in 1932, in the old Trung Khanh district (Cao Bang province), Tay ethnic person.
With the desire to hold a gun to fight the enemy and liberate the country, although only 16 years old, young La Van Cau that day declared to increase to 18 years old to join the army.
It was 1948, the early days of the resistance war against French colonialism, which was extremely arduous and lacking, but faith and will helped young man La Van Cau overcome difficulties and rise up to become an exemplary soldier, full of compassion.
Colonel, Hero of the People's Armed Forces La Van Cau once shared about the years of "biting hardship" with his comrades in the past on the front lines against the enemy.
He once recounted that he participated in 2 major campaigns with a total of more than 25 battles. Among them, the battle of Dong Khe fort in the Autumn-Winter Border Campaign from September 16 to 18, 1950 is the most memorable, because his right arm is forever on the battlefield.
Participating in that battle, soldier La Van Cau was assigned to be the Team Leader of the Explosive Team with the task of breaking down the enemy's bunker fence to open the way for his comrades to advance. During the fighting, his right arm was dangling and entangled, so he asked his comrades to help him chop off his arm so that he could continue to hug the 12kg explosive with his left hand, climb the slope, and press it against the enemy's bunker to detonate..., completing the assigned task.
The war was fierce, soldier La Van Cau had to leave his right arm on the battlefield, but this did not reduce the will and determination of the soldier in daily life.
Later, soldier La Van Cau was honored to be one of the people honored by Uncle Ho in the patriotic emulation movement in the Viet Bac war zone. From then on, in combat as well as in peacetime, he always thought that he had to strive, preserve, and train his health to see the country and rivers develop more and more richly and beautifully.
The fighting example of Hero La Van Cau has encouraged the emulation movement to kill invaders and make merits throughout the army, becoming the leading flag in the emulation movement to use explosives to attack forts - a new form of tactics of our army from the Border Campaign in 1950.
