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Gokul with his father, Kulbahadur, August 2020
THE HONORARY CAPTAIN AND THE BBC THE BBC VJ75 PROGRAMME AND HONORARY CAPTAIN KULBAHADUR GURUNG MM
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he email from Paul Corden on 19 June 2020 said, “The BBC are keen to contact any Gurkha veterans from Burma in World War II; do you know any?” Paul had done a secondment with 6 GR from 1990–92, but was now very involved with the Chindit Society of UK and he explained that the BBC were putting together a programme to commemorate the 75th
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anniversary of the victory over Japan. I immediately thought of Kulbahadur Saheb who had presented the British Officers with their 200th Anniversary Badges in Pokhara in 2017. I emailed his son Gokul, who had served with us in 6 GR, but was now settled in Swindon, UK to ask about his father. It transpired that Gokul was actually in Nepal, having been caught by the Covid-19 restrictions at the end of his visit from
