Khukuri Club

[Highlander]

(21 December 2012, 18:17)uks Wrote: I was given a khukuri when i was attached to them (6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles). They were a great bunch of blokes and great fun. Lovely curries they made.
Use at least twice a week for kindling and gardening.They showed me how to use and how the keep it in tip top condition.
They also told me of the stories about the Falklands like getting into the argies camps using the khukuri on one person in a two man tent all leaving the other one untouched it must have played on the mind of the argies.

I knew them well in Malaya,.. I can also tell you a khurkuri/Ghurka story,.. we were sitting around a campsite one day, British and Ghurka,.. one of the Brits started to have a go at Johnny Ghurka, saying how they relied a lot on their reputation from years ago.

The one Ghurka stood up and told him to get a patrol together, he would go out into the jungle [ we were camped in the jungle ], and `lets see what happens`

So the patrol went out, and after an hour returned to find the Ghurka sitting at the fire,.. the Brits went daft, telling him that he had never left and sent them out on a wild goose chase.

The Ghurka told them to look down at their left boots,..... the Ghurka had laid at the side of the track, and as the patrol had walked by, he had slit their boot straps with the Khukuri,.. the boots hadnt loosened because they were wet and anyone who was in the far east knows that the boots remained tight

the ghurka simply said,... ` and it could have been your throats`,... the Brit didnt say anything