Sgt. Kulman Tamang from The 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles was recruited in 1956, when he was 18. When he was young, his father actually wanted him to study with some learned man in the village. But he had a passion for music. Despite his passion for music, his father sent him to the mountains to study Buddhism while he was around 12 or 13 years of age, where he could not focus on that. And later he found himself unfit there, so he decided to leave. "But how can I return home?", he asked himself thinking it will not be easy to face his people at home. And on the way back home thinking about it, he saw other young people going for recruitment with whom he wanted to join. But it wasn't easy just to get in until he was spotted by the selecting officer as a young man with good physique.
"Because I couldn't return home, it was indeed a great opportunity!", he mentioned with a smile in his face. Glad he was selected and he was stationed around Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo war and also in Hong Kong. Not only he remembers of his training days and the warfare but also how he also remembers of learning about tree plantation & nursery at the Kadoorie Farm in Hong Kong. He also proudly remembers being the first one assigned to lead a group to control the crowd in Happy Valley racecourse along with his duties at the border control of Hong Kong. At present, although he is in his late 70s, he is actively working on to preserve his Tamang ethnic culture here in Hong Kong for the new generation.
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