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Support Mr Tul Bahadur Pun VC & Our Gurkhas
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06-01-2007, 04:00 AM
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Heh, I liked the stories of Ghurka humor like the one about British Officers demanding more 'hazard' pay when using Ghurka drivers. Apparently, they take orders literally and when you say 'go straight at the roundabout'...well, lets just say a lot of fountains had a jeep motiff added to its decor.
Or how British soldiers jumping into Ghurka trenches suddenly found that their heads were still a good foot above the parapet.
Or the body hacking stories...when they were cremating a comrade, the heat caused the body to 'sit up'. They all had a good chuckle and just pushed it back down onto the pyre...when it happened a few more times they took out their Khukris and chopped the body in half!
The same happened to some fallen germans. They were told to bury the german dead but the frozen bodies were in odd positions and could not fit into the regulation size graves and much to the returning officer's horror, out came the khukris for a choppy chop session.
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