10 Mind-Blowing Feats Performed By Gurkhas

8. Naik Nakam Gurung's Seven Year Jungle Isolation

A soldier from the company of Gurkhas that is to fly out to Bosnia shortly, in their first operational deployment since the Falklands conflict, trains at their base of Church Cookham in Hampshire today (Friday). The advance party of the Nepalese troops wi
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Naik Nakam Gurung's jungle journey started in September of 1941, when his battalion was moved to Malaya. Their task was to do battle against the Japanese Imperial Army in one of the harshest environments known to man.

After a number of skirmishes with the enemy, his battalion was eventually caught in an ambush. Ever the valiant fighters, the Gurkhas battled on, but eventually ended up getting scattered by the attack.

Naik Nakam Gurung and a few others managed to fight their way out and made a plan to march to Singapore. After 25 days of journeying they reached the Jementah area, with Gurung making the decision to stay behind as he had contracted malaria and did not want to hold his comrades back.

With three months rations to get by on, he somehow managed to recover from the ailment but was unable to relocate the rest of his unit.

Instead he built a small shelter and set about cultivating the land, determined to wait out the war or rejoin with any passing troops that should happen upon him.

It wasn't until October of 1949 that the patrol of 1/10 GR discovered him, still living off the land he had cultivated and any animals he could trap. During the entire time he had never left the jungle and continued to believe that the war was ongoing.

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