Author: Grumpy

Its 1917, you’re a German Stoßtruppen one of the finest soldiers of the Kaiser, you have been fighting in the Great War since the beginning, you have been assigned to this elite unit due to your extreme experience.

You wait for your commander to order you and your fellow soldiers to advance on a British trench under the cover of the night, suddenly just before you’re about to jump over the trench you hear a scream.

It only takes a few seconds, when you turn your head to look at where the screams came from you see two shinny objects that dance around in the darkness reflecting the light of the candles you had lit up minutes ago, and before you know what’s going on, you feel the cold steel enter your chest and for a moment you see the face of your enemy and realise that you’ve never seen such facial features. That’s when it hits you, you’re looking into the eyes of one of the Mad Dogs of the British Empire.

A Gurkha Warrior.

A Gurkha unit capturing a German position in 1916

A Gurkha soldier chargin a axis position in Tunisia 1943

Gurkha soldiers applying camouflage before going into battle, Falklands 1982

Gurkha soldier protecting US troops getting into a helicopter

“If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gurkha.” – Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw.

In my opinion the scariest soldiers are the ones that have been fighting for the last 2 centuries with no fear using Kukri knives against guns.