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Tony B

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  • 11 months later...

yep 'The Forgotten HIghlander' is a grade A 100% of a book....

......I'm just reading one of the 'forgotten voices' series of books ....midway thru the one on Burma which was written / collected by Julian Thomspson the retired British Army fella of Falklands fame........awesome stuff very good indeed.....

one part relates something that whilst being rather grim, did make me chuckle a bit...

some Ghurka fellas were orderd to bury some dead Japanese....apparantly in those days the Ghurkas didn't really hold with this 'burying' business ...especially when it concerned burying dead enemy soldiers...but they eventually set to..however.... being of an ingenious nature they didn't bother to dig any graves........the Japs in that particular battle had been fighting out of very small one man foxholes.......so the Ghurkas started chucking the bodies back into the foxholes instead...

only problem was ...having been dead for a few days the corpses were stiff with rigor mortis.......

.so the Ghurkas simply set to with a will and used their kurkri knives to chop the bodies up into smaller bits that would fit in the holes better....arms legs and heads were all uncermoniously chopped off...

....apparantly when their CO found out exactly how they'd achieved the job he was rather appalled and ordered them not to do such a thing again..... :)

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