Tough soldiers - pic
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Hard in many ways but also noted for their gentleness when merited
MIRAMICHIER
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- Miramichi,Nb
My uncle was in Italy a year before D-Day with the North Shore Regiment.He said was on guard duty one night in the pitch black and he felt a hand run down his boot laces apparently it was a Sikh making sure he was Canadian and not a Germans they tied their boot laces a different way.He told us the Sikhs were feared he told many funny stories at the Camp.Maybe only a Story ???
heard the same story only it was Ghurkas not Sikhs
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/truth-or-yet-another-myth-re-gurkhas.88011/
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Brave and respected men.
Cameron SS
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Been hearing the same story every year since recruit school. The unit always changes but the punchline is always the same: Lace your boots properly or someone might cut your throat in your sleep.
Anyone soldier skilled enough to enter an unknown military camp in cover of night and get close enough ti touch a sleeping soldiers boot laces would be a pretty bad scout if they git that far and hadnt already determined the nationality of the camp they were in. 9\10 you can identify a camps nationality by getting down wind of the kitchen
Most German troops didn't have lace up boots, they had calf high pull up types.
I've heard the same story, I've always felt it was just the Gurkhas playing a dangerous prank or practising.
The Sikh's have a martial tradition going back centuries. Just finished Wiliam Slim's account of the Burma War against the Japanese. He was amazed at the small amount of supplies and provisions Sikh's and Gurkha's could subsist on versus a British unit.
IDK: My dad's boots were laced-up the wazoo.
That is a lot of laces ....
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- On the beach
Last time I heard the story it wasn't laces but puttees
I had an uncle who fought alongside sikh infantry against the Japanese in Burma . He said he always felt better when they were around . Truly outstanding soldiers .
OneBarfly, that'a a great pic.
Those are very likely not general issue boots. Very nice.
His pants are "jodpuhrs" commonly used for riding horses and maybe with dress uniforms.
Maybe a special courier element????
Those are very likely not general issue boots. Very nice.
His pants are "jodpuhrs" commonly used for riding horses and maybe with dress uniforms.
Maybe a special courier element????
OneBarfly
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IDK as my German is really bad, but I believe he was a driver/chauffeur.
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