Hero Gurkha gets top gong

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | June 2, 2011 | Duncan Larcombe

[AnAmericanAbroad]

A GURKHA who fought off 30 Taliban on his own even after his ammunition ran out yesterday received a top bravery medal from the Queen.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Ahhh, Gurkas..... is there anything they can't do?

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you for this inspiring post!

[WayneS]

"I thought I was definitely going to die so I thought I'd kill as many of them as I could first."

I like this guy's attitude!

[maine yankee]

even after his ammunition ran out yesterday

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English is hard

[beebuster2000]

posted this before on the story of the ghurka who defeated 25 robbers on a train, but its worth restating their motto:

FEAR ME I AM A GHURKA

[ConorMacNessa]

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[CrazyIvan]

Uniform looks like a bell hop, but I don’t think I’ll tell him.

[brownsfan]

I'm all for a good gurkha.

[ComputerGuy]

Semper Fi Doc

[ConorMacNessa]

Semper Fi, Brother! Those Gurkhas are magnificent troops, aren't they?

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[ComputerGuy]

Their reputation is well-deserved, no doubt...just like that other group of warriors you and I remember.
SF

[AnAmericanMother]

"Jai Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali!"

Well done, corporal.

[Forty-Niner]

“just like that other group of warriors you and I remember.”

.....and those warriors will never forget you doc!

[ComputerGuy]

I must confess I had to go to the dictionary for that one.
You're right. You're absolutely right.

[Pan_Yan]

Bmfl

[Sans-Culotte]

Smoked a Gurkha myself yesterday while walking the dog.

[Forty-Niner]

Good job, and well deserved medal for one of the world’s finest soldiers......

US Marine Dan Daley, singlehandily defending the Peking Legation Wall at the top of a staircase during the Boxer Rebellion, defeated 200 (killed 62+) Boxers in hand to hand combat. He was awarded his first MOH, for this action. Captain John (Handsome Jack) Meyers Commanding. (played by Charleston Heston in the movie 55 days at Peking.)

Fifteen years later he received his second MOH award for actions in Haiti. Dan Also received our Nations second highest award, the Navy Cross, during the First World War.
“Come on you SOBs....follow me...do you want to live forever?”

And yes, we still make ‘em like this to this very day!

[Candor7]

Ahhh, Gurkas..... is there anything they can’t do?>>>>>>>>>>

Take Obama back to Kenya?

[AnAmericanMother]

Fortunately, the dictionary's just a click away.

(I went to check the spelling!)

The Gurkhas are men with whom you REALLY do not want to mess. One of the British Empire's secret weapons, along with the Highland Scots . . . another mountain tribe.

[AnAmericanMother]

Really great photos from WWI and WWII here:

WWI. George Macdonald Fraser mentioned the Gurkhas' affinity for the bagpipes. Another link with the Highlanders.

WWII.

Some of these Gurkha regiments were in my dad's sector. I'll have to ask him if he ran up against any of them.