Gurkha Soldier facts
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Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a Gurkha soldier who single-handedly held his post against dozens of oncoming Taliban; after firing 250 machine gun rounds, 180 SA80 rounds, throwing 12 grenades and one claymore mine, 30 Taliban lay dead around him.
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On 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
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A British Gurkha soldier Dip Prasad Pun killed 30 Taliban single-handedly in Afghanistan
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A Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India.
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Badass of the Week: Lachhiman Gurung -- After a grenade exploded in his right hand Gurung was left bleeding, partially blinded and one armed. Then he grabbed his rifle, chambered a round, and shouted, "Now come and fight a Gurkha!". Killed 31 Japanese soldiers in 4 hours that night.
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A Gurkha during WW2 defended his post alone against <200 Japanese soldiers despite losing one arm
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Lachhiman Gurung, a 4'11"Gurkha soldier held off against 200 Japanese soldiers for four hours-killing thirty one of them. He did this whilst having had his right arm blown off and had to shoot using only his left arm.
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There is a saying that the kukri knife carried by the Gurkha soldiers that reads:.. " that the weapon cannot be sheathed until it has drawn blood".
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Lachhiman Gurung, a Gurkha soldier who fought off waves of Japanese attacks, despite having to fire his bolt action using his left hand, having lost most of his right hand and arm from grenade shrapnel.
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about Bhakti Thupa. A 74 year old Gurkha whose bravery in facing British soldiers armed only with a Khukri led to the British forming a Gurkha regiment.
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Royal Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the British Army, whose soldiers are recruited from Nepal. Their motto is "Better to die than live a coward".
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About Bishnu Shrestha, a gurkha soldier who took on forty robbers on a train. By himself.
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Lachhiman Gurung VC, gurkha soldier, who "single handedly" defended his post for over 4 hours against 200 enemy soldiers killing 31 Japanese in second world war.
After the British failed to incorporate Nepal into the British Empire, but impressed by their native defenders, the UK military maintains a 200 year old tradition of training regiments of Gurkha soldiers from Nepal. - source
In 2010, a Royal Gurkha Rifles battalion conducted a raid on the Helmand province to kill or capture a HVI with specific instructions to bring back proof. They were counterattacked and in a heat of the moment a soldier removed the head of the already dead commander to bring back for inspection. - source
