Victoria Cross Recipient |Gurkha Regiment | Ganju Lama V.C | World War Two | For Valour | 1985 

A man dedicated to the benefit of others. God bless.

My Lord ! once in my life time, i'd love to meet a VC Gurkha.if there ever a total prviledge and honor , that's it !.. End of story.. Thank You!!

The Gurkhas are truly amazing soldiers, I admire their courage & dedication to the British Army.

salute to my forefather.

Absloute bravery. Salute sir

Gorkha always in front to the entire world

My grandfather fought along with ganju lama in wwii.. Jay gorkha....❤

I have came across Gurkha soldiers in my hometown of Sungai Petani in the 60s.

proud to be a gorkha .........inspired me a lot jai gorkha.......big salute sir and god bless your family

I am Proud of the Gukha's and what they do ! Amazing People ..

Respect to our Nepali comrades, no better friends, no worse enemies....

An amazing man The one thing about all VC recipients from all countries is their humility. Hero's all.

Ganju lama's ancestors were Tibetan buddhists who migrated to Sikkim, which was an independent kingdom in the past. Sikkim is now part of the Indian Union. Ethnic Gurkhas are Hindus from Nepal, but because Ganju lama served in a Gurkha regiment, he is honoured as a Gurkha. The Indian Army has a batallion of commandos who are from Tibet, but who took refuge in India along with the Dalai Lama, more than sixty years ago. This commando unit distinguished itself in the recent fighting with the Chinese in Ladakh a few months back. The Chinese communist government has always been unhappy with India, because the Dalai Lama was given asylum and security along with hundreds of thousands of Tibetans who fled Tibet.

Interesting how just the right circumstances, the exact timing and the action taken without hesitation would change the life of this young man during Britain's fight with Japan. Now everyone looks up to him and he is a humble role model and model citizen. This is how it should be. In the West, he probably would have turned into an arrogant self centered egotism with a sense of entitlement who enjoys his liquor and other vices.

Thank you for uploading this documentary about Ganju Lama

so a battle fought near my village has produced a Victoria Cross recipient.

Rely a grt soldier n a grt man.....love from INDIA...

It was during our junior primary school days in 1965, we used to play soccer together with the British Gurkha Soldiers in Limbang, Sarawak, Malaysia, it was used to be Wednesday and Saturday Afternoon every week. I was then a real skinny 10 years old kids. Hahahaha. The norm are as follows:- Limbang is located next door to Brunei, where the British Gurkha are being stationed in Seria ,Camp, Brunei and that was the arrangement between Brunei and Great Britain which are granted British Protectorate Agreement since 18th Century till to this date, perhaps, please correct me if I am wrong. Every Wednesday and Saturday Afternoon respectively, we came in to the football field in Limbang, that is 1.5 Miles away from Limbang Town, then started playing the games and then in a short while later there came the Gurkhas and they played with us (all of us were kid not more than 12 years old) and to avoid being rough up and kicked by the Soldiers , they stop the games, gives us the refreshment which was very mouth watering indeed and a few bar of Chocolates, sweet and candies were given to us , young 10-12 years old school children. Then we were told to watch them playing soccer and definitely it was a real hell on the field for all those soldiers muscling themselves in the game. Then upon finishing the game , we were trucked in back to the school and given a few can of food stuff and I did remember, it was a very tasty Sausage and Roasted Red Bean , and the Field Combat Can Opener , which I like and used to keep one handy, till to this days, wow the food stuffs were real yummy by then, since we were all were BOARDERS in the Mission School with a mere and poor food supply, away from our parent at home in the remote area back in our Village and Longhouse. Then upon reaching adulthood , I joined the Malaysian Armed Forces , due to the interest after watching and mixing with the Gurkha and left after 10 years due to the poor remuneration scale made therein and joined the OIL and GAS Industry with the Maritime Project activities all over the World Ocean and High Seas on the planet. Till then, wishing all the fellow Forces Veterans , be they are the British or the Malaysian, May all of us are in the Best Of Health and May God Bless us All, Amen.

What an extraordinary man! A well earned VC!

Respect 🙏

What a person. RIP

Such a praiseful documentary. The final scene was lagendary where he walks through the crowd in a market smoking cigarette. Thank You Thames TV. I would love to download this video and keep the narration unchanged for the final scene I would love to watch it offline. I would be gald to know your response.

do you have any video of ganju lama plz put in you tube ...we r listening to your bravest story in news papper in Nepal. ..I m from Nepal big n heartly salutes to you ganju Lama. ...you are a brave gorkhali. ...when you single fight in Japanese soldier's. ..last word Rest in peace.... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

This man is a true hero who lived it every day, not just at war.

thank you sir

This is very good video. Thank you.

SIR you are a man among MEN.

Ganju was neither a Gurkha nor was he Nepal. He was of Sikkimese Bhutia ethnicity. But in fighting spirit he was no less than any true Gurkha. As Field Marshal Manekshaw - himself a officer in the Gurkhas- famously remarked "If a man says he's not afraid of dying either he's lying or he's a Gurkha"

VC Sahib. What a legend. What a great people. I do hope we spend our aid on Nepal to help our friends there.

Brilliant.

So proud to be his grandson

Legend never died ❤

These men is my grandfather friend..his name is prabhu Mani pradhan from kpg He also write about him ..he is brave person from Sikkim.. student in Sikkim read at class v standard..

Another true hero,,not only in war but for his countries people as well.👍👍

o7 A Hero and a Fine Man too.

Nepalese Gurkha Jai Gurkha!

These are the children of Chomolungma. The goddess who sits at the roof of the world guarding passage between heaven and earth.

What an amazing man..

The British seem to take a lot of pride in a unit they let die in poverty in old age.

De qué año será está grabación

Proud to be Sikkimese..

Thanks for beautiful documentry.. proud to b sikkimes. But what is ( piat. Gun. )

Legends never die

hes turning English himself. what a legend. respect.

tenangkan fikiran..

What a man.

Kaphar hunnu bhanda marnu kamro!!!

I don’t think they understand Victoria cross, they are just courages.

Ganju.👏

Proud to be Lama 🇮🇳

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Best of the best .gurkha rifles. 2 rgr .

Warrior

My eldest Son is a British soldier, and he is in awe of the Gurkha trainers, instructors, soldiers and veterans Throughout his basic training, his instructor was a gurkha, and he learned quickly to honour each gurkha he ever meets. Selfless fearless warriors

pride of Indian Gorkha

Very humble. 😂

May be the Japanese thought he was a fellow comrade.. JK...

He was not even a real gorkha ftom a gorkha fighting tribes.

Hate to be picky but the person speaking at 8:55, Roy Gribble should know that he is being repetitive when he stated, "...to attack three Japanese tanks on your own, by yourself...". On your own and by yourself do have the same meaning. If he ever wrote orders using such expressions it would be counter-productive and take time to read and decipher them. 'nuf sed.