We needed Gurkhas and ought to look after them
How insensitive of James Good to call the magnificent Gurkhas mercenaries.
They get paid the same or less than our fighting men.
At 18 years old, after ten weeks’ training, I found myself in the Malayan jungle, expected to fight communist terrorists that had been there for ten years. If it was not for the Gurkhas attached to our regiment, we would have lost a lot more men. They tought me how to fight and we needed them. We are obliged to look after them.
Bob Gentle, Totton, member of the Comrades Association, Malaya/Borneo Veterens’ Branch, Royal Hampshire Regiment.
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