were off on our annual holiday,so we called by Brecon for the annual parade to thank these Gurka immigrants for fighting for our country for half price ,we would complain if they were Polish. lol
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The Gurkhas are great people, had the pleasure of working with them at the NRA comps back in the early eighties.
The Polish had a bunch of good pilots back in WW2 fighting for GB, something that gets forgotten now.
Same as with the Dutch resistance.
Same as with the Dutch resistance.
Funny you should say that Mike, and to a degree it's sadly true. We passed a fledgling RAF Ingham Heritage centre at Ingham airfield this afternoon. This place was a grass airfield back in WW2 and housed several squadrons of Polish crewed bombers, about 15 miles north of Lincoln and only 3 or so from RAF Scampton along the cliff of the Trent Valley. There were more including Hemswell, and Kirton Lindsey to name but two.
http://www.rafingham.co.uk/
We haven't visited it yet but plan to.
I will always remember a man called Frank Polinski who worked on the Lincoln and District Water Board with my dad. A lovely man.
Tony.
And to think our government were considering not allowing those very brave men to settle here.
Tony.
There is a Nepalese restaurant in Truro, The Katmandu, that is run by ex Gurkah's
At the one here in Nuneaton there's a great chance that the guy serving you is a Lord! Bet that doesn't happen often.