Re: Ghurkas

OK, OK!  I give!  I didn't even know who the Ghurkas were until the call
for
SG minis for them sometime last year!

Now I need a book -- anyone recommend an account of the Ghurkas actions?

Nicholas Caldwell
clcaldwell@kreative.net

----- Original Message -----
From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Ghurkas

> >I would believe either variant.  I also heard a story of a time that
a
> >British officer, feeling superior, hughtily instructed a Gurkha Sgt.
heading
> >out on patrol to bring him a German officer's watch.  reportedly the
Gurkha
> >complied, but the watch was still on a wrist.
>
> I've heard the "I.D. by shoelace knot" story as well. I also recall my
> father talking about his days as an RA gunner in the desert campaign
(on
> 25pdrs at Alamein!) and mentioning serving with Gurkha units at
various
> times - even our own troops were (respectfully) scared stiff of the
little
> blighters, especially after rumours that they were bringing Jerry
heads
> back with them from patrols....
>
> Jon (GZG)
> >
> >Brian
> >
> >"The Irish are the only race of people on Earth for which
psychoanalysis
is
> >of no use."
> >
> >				    - S. Freud
> >
> >
> >>From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>
> >>Reply-To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> >>To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
> >>Subject: Re: Ghurkas
> >>Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 07:01:30 +0100
> >>
> >>Brian Bilderback wrote:
> >>
> >>>I once heard an apocryphal story about a Gurkha game in WW2,
involving
> >>>slitting an enemy sentry's bootlaces without alerting him to your
> >>>presence.
> >>>Can your acquaintance confirm/deny such?
> >>
> >>The variant I've heard had the Allied troops ordered to tie their
bootlaces
> >>with a special knot so the Gurkhas would recognize them as friendly
(by
> >>feeling the knot in pitch dark) and refrain from slitting their
*throats*
> >>(or, more likely, push a kukri up their groins) :-/
> >>
> >>Later,
> >>
> >>Oerjan
> >>oerjan.ohlson@telia.com
> >>
> >>"Life is like a sewer.
> >>  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."
> >>-Hen3ry
> >>
> >
> >
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