The Gurkhas: Special Force by Chris Bellamy

Author:Chris Bellamy [Bellamy, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848545151
Google: WNumN3xIQRYC
Published: 2011-04-14T05:12:33+00:00

Gurung explained that his regiment normally ate rice but they had been issued only with flour and that during the one-hour halt during the day there was not time to cook chapatis. Gurung did not remember where his small group of camel-riding Gurkhas had stopped, but they might possibly have done so at Azrak. They then met up with some Egyptian sappers and miners.

‘The next day we went out with the Egyptians to break the railway line. We rode for a long way and then broke the rail for the first time near Maan.’

‘Did you help break it or was that sapper work?’

‘We Gurkhas did some of the breaking. We tore down the telegraph lines and broke them by hammering the wires between two stones. When we finished the work we retired into the desert and rode north towards Amman. We travelled one or two days on the way. Near Amman we broke the line again. This time our party was employed on covering work only. After this we rode again to a place about six miles north of Deraa. We arrived at our objective about daybreak after riding all night and we started work on the railway line about six o’clock in the morning. This time the Turks attacked us but we had Lewis guns as well as rifles and we drove them back; they never got nearer than six hundred yards from us.’

‘Were there no other covering troops?’

‘Oh yes, some “badus” [irregular troops], the small French cannon and an armoured car. They helped us. We worked right on at breaking the line and bridges until about twelve o’clock when a great number of Turkish aeroplanes came and attacked us.’82

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