Many of you might have seen him around Hong Kong or maybe in this particular restaurant in Yuen Long; but I wonder how many of you really know him or have really noticed the walls in his restaurant and have been curious to know more about him. Well then & now, he still carries that cheerful smile and runs his famous restaurant Sek Kong Gaa Lei Nguk 石崗咖喱屋 or Shaffi's Restaurant in Yuen Long. But he is not Shaffi. He is...
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Colonel Christopher Peter Lavender joined the British army in 1968 when was 18. However he was not with the Gurkhas initially, but he was with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment until 1978 instead. Only having known little about Gurkhas, at first he thought he couldn’t join them and thought it was an elite and rarified organization. But he heard a lot about Gurkhas when he was in the service, and even got to know and learn more about Gurkhas from the other Brigade of Gurkha Officers when he was doing a course in England. Living away from family and having already served in Germany and Northern Ireland, he was already thinking of leaving the force, but the Officers persuaded him to transfer, so he applied for the secondment to Brigade of Gurkhas in 1978. After the secondment, when he was asked whether he is interested to be a permanent cadre of Brigade of Gurkhas, |
Gurung Dhiraj- Grandson of a Gurkha trying to learn and share the history of Gurkhas in Hong Kong. Archives
June 2018
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