Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Tul Bahadur Pun VC (Gurkha Rifles)
Dear All
My firm is acting for Mr Tul Bahadur Pun VC (Gurkha Rifles).
We are pulling out all the stops to correct the outrage directed toward this 84 year-old man. However, we could not do this without you all. I am personally trying to read several forums at once, but it is impossible to post on them all. I have asked my friends at ARRSERs (The Army Rumour Service), who are already signed up on your forums, to kindly post this and to thank you for all for what you are doing for my client.
The British public are personally, individually, and collectively, repaying the debt this man (one of the "Bravest of the Brave") is owed by our country.
This is coming from the bottom up. You, the public are leading the politicians and civil servants, and you are the ones righting the wrong which is being done in our name.
My client is fully aware of all the support you have given him. I soon hope you will soon see a photo from him, which he wanted us to send back to the UK, to say that he knows you, the British public, are on his side (even though he is very ill, he got out of bed to make sure that you good people knew that he felt you all "had his back").
Please support our campaign. Petition and email us at: www.vchero.co.uk. All email will go in front of the Immigration Judge considering this case. However, you must bombard your MP and the Government (particularly the Asylum & Immigration Minister, Liam Byrne) about the continuing snub to the Gurkhas who have fought and spilt blood for our country. Rejecting a VC is, sadly, only the icing on their very ugly cake!
Many, many thanks.
Kind regards
Kieran O'Rourke
Howe & Co Solicitors
Ealing, London
www.vchero.co.uk
Wouldn't it be great if we could swap five of these:
...for one of these?
And it would still be an unequal trade.
"In Burma on June 23rd, 1944, a Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles was ordered to attack the Railway Bridge at Mogaung.
Immediately the attack developed the enemy opened concentrated and sustained cross fire at close range from a position known as the Red House and from a strong bunker position two hundred yards to the left of it. So intense was this cross fire that both the leading platoons of 'B' Company, one of which was Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun's, were pinned to the ground and the whole of his Section was wiped out with the exception of himself, the Section commander and one other man.
The Section commander immediately led the remaining two men in a charge on the Red House but was at once badly wounded. Rifleman Tulbahadur Pun and his remaining companion continued the charge, but the latter too was immediately wounded.
Rifleman Tulbahadur Pun then seized the Bren Gun, and firing from the hip as he went, continued the charge on this heavily bunkered position alone, in the face of the most shattering concentration of automatic fire, directed straight at him. With the dawn coming up behind him, he presented a perfect target to the Japanese. He had to move for thirty yards over open ground, ankle deep in mud, through shell holes and over fallen trees.
Despite these overwhelming odds, he reached the Red House and closed with the Japanese occupations. He killed three and put five more to flight and captured two light machine guns and much ammunition. He then gave accurate supporting fire from the bunker to the remainder of his platoon which enabled them to reach their objective.
His outstanding courage and superb gallantry in the face of odds which meant almost certain death were most inspiring to all ranks and beyond praise."
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Hear, hear! Exactly, Sir. As ever, you put in a few sentences what us mere mortals can just about manage in a long, long post.
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‘’Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you."
Sir Ralph Turner MC, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, describing the Gurkhas he fought with in World War
Sir Ralph Turner MC, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles, describing the Gurkhas he fought with in World War
But who on earth would want those five?! You couldn't give them away, let alone exchange them for a man like Tul Bahadur Pun VC!
His lawyer said
"Rejecting a VC is, sadly, only the icing on their very ugly cake!"
Many many brave men from the Colonies and Dominions fought for George VI. They saw it as the right thing to do. They are now old gentlemen. If they need medical treatment, we should put our hands in our pockets and send money to ensure they get the treatment in the place they have always lived, with their loved ones nearby. We give to old British servicemen. Giving to servicemen who are not British is not too much to ask.
The argument that anyone who fought for our side in a war and now has a medical need should be allowed to settle here for the rest of their days not one I support.
"Rejecting a VC is, sadly, only the icing on their very ugly cake!"
Many many brave men from the Colonies and Dominions fought for George VI. They saw it as the right thing to do. They are now old gentlemen. If they need medical treatment, we should put our hands in our pockets and send money to ensure they get the treatment in the place they have always lived, with their loved ones nearby. We give to old British servicemen. Giving to servicemen who are not British is not too much to ask.
The argument that anyone who fought for our side in a war and now has a medical need should be allowed to settle here for the rest of their days not one I support.
My email to Liam Bryne reads as follows.. Hope this helps..
Mr Byrne,
When will you announce that Mr Tul Bahadur Pun VC (Gurkha Rifles) is welcome to settle in this country and make full use of our medical facilities in his remaining years? Someone in your department has made a huge error in refusing this man residency in the UK and your continued silence confirms you as a weak minister with no sense of right and wrong. Furthermore, and probably of far more importance to you, it shows that you have no feeling for the mood of the country with regard to this matter, and your action (or lack of it) is losing Labour more and more votes every day. What are you waiting for? Perhaps you are hoping he will die and the problem will go away? If this happens, be assured that we will be ready with placards reminding the electorate when you turn comes round to asking for their support at the next General Election.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Byrne,
When will you announce that Mr Tul Bahadur Pun VC (Gurkha Rifles) is welcome to settle in this country and make full use of our medical facilities in his remaining years? Someone in your department has made a huge error in refusing this man residency in the UK and your continued silence confirms you as a weak minister with no sense of right and wrong. Furthermore, and probably of far more importance to you, it shows that you have no feeling for the mood of the country with regard to this matter, and your action (or lack of it) is losing Labour more and more votes every day. What are you waiting for? Perhaps you are hoping he will die and the problem will go away? If this happens, be assured that we will be ready with placards reminding the electorate when you turn comes round to asking for their support at the next General Election.
Yours sincerely,
I was a little surprised to find, on clicking through to the solicitor's website and then to the Downing Street petition advertised thereon, that the petition is actually a far wider call for the PM "to immediately and retrospectively give all Gurkha servicemen and their immediate families past and present british [sic] citizenship." I tend to agree with Will that we absolutely owe it to the Gurkhas to see them well-treated in their post-service years (better pensions and specific funding for healthcare in Nepal would go a long way towards that, as well as an end to the generally shabby treatment they've had from several governments), but I don't think transplanting them all to the UK is either necessary or sensible.
While we're at it... is anyone else annoyed by the further cult of presidentialisation represented by the whole "Petition the PM" idea? Like he's some kind of Aztec deity whom we must appease with our humble supplications - and if he (or He) feels enough heat (e.g. road tolls petition) he might condescend to part the clouds and give us a sign. Mendacious egomaniac. I know what sign I'm giving him.
While we're at it... is anyone else annoyed by the further cult of presidentialisation represented by the whole "Petition the PM" idea? Like he's some kind of Aztec deity whom we must appease with our humble supplications - and if he (or He) feels enough heat (e.g. road tolls petition) he might condescend to part the clouds and give us a sign. Mendacious egomaniac. I know what sign I'm giving him.
This is not going to be popular, but Ghurkas, great blokes that they are, and I have served with them, are not British and do not fight for Britain or the Crown.
Ghurkas are mercenaries, simple as that. They are volunteers. They choose, and chose, to join the Ghurka Rifles and fight for pay, and pay alone.
They should not be given retrospective citizenship or extra payments, because if this did happen it would cheapen their profession and their vocation as mercenaries, and would destroy the Ghurkas and see them permanently disbanded.
They are Nepalese and should be repatriated when their term of service are up.
Comparing them to immigrant scum who should face the rope is not fair to the Ghurkas or to us, and that is a problem that cannot be expunged by giving any special treatment to Ghurkas retropsectively.
Campaign to have the system changed by all means, but not as a comparative to the fucking scum that infests this country now.
Ghurkas are mercenaries, simple as that. They are volunteers. They choose, and chose, to join the Ghurka Rifles and fight for pay, and pay alone.
They should not be given retrospective citizenship or extra payments, because if this did happen it would cheapen their profession and their vocation as mercenaries, and would destroy the Ghurkas and see them permanently disbanded.
They are Nepalese and should be repatriated when their term of service are up.
Comparing them to immigrant scum who should face the rope is not fair to the Ghurkas or to us, and that is a problem that cannot be expunged by giving any special treatment to Ghurkas retropsectively.
Campaign to have the system changed by all means, but not as a comparative to the fucking scum that infests this country now.
Shotgun! ....... Your points are valid .. but if the Gurkhas are mercenaries They are the loyalist of the Loyal and I too have served with them and they surely deserve as Much consideration as any other Squady .... to compare them with the Scum that the present Adminstration is allowing into this Country is a blatant Insult...............
REGIMENTS and CORPS
of the BRITISH ARMY
1995
From this site you will find The Gurkha's between the Parachute Regiment and The Royal Green Jackets under Infantry:
http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/lists/ba1995.htm
The Gurkha are NOT mercenaries ! for Christ's sake.
of the BRITISH ARMY
1995
From this site you will find The Gurkha's between the Parachute Regiment and The Royal Green Jackets under Infantry:
http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/lists/ba1995.htm
The Gurkha are NOT mercenaries ! for Christ's sake.
Dont worry - its just this country led by imbeciles and crooks letting in people who would kill us and keeping out a great, brave and loyal VC holder who protected us! I have never seen a country go down the pan like this one has - what a disgrace!
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