The Stanwix Trust, Catterick Garrison

06/05/2024

Not a bad plate mate 😂😂

06/05/2024

200-year-old cherry tree in Japan 🇯🇵
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06/05/2024

10/10/2022

09/10/2022

Buy British MILK!
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26/09/2022

Captain G R Dubs MC. King's Royal Rifle Corps (Photo IWM)

26/09/2022

In 2010, Hari lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan with The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

Following his injury, Hari took up climbing and now dreams of climbing Mount Everest. 🎖️

26/09/2022

26/09/2022

25/09/2022

25/09/2022

The First Gurkha Victoria Cross – Rifleman Kulbir Thapa - 25th/26th September 1915.

Kulbir Thapa was born at Nigalpani in Nepal around 1888, and originally enlisted with the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Gurkha Rifles (1/3GR), but was transferred to the 2nd Battalion for service in France after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

In September 1915, 3GR had been tasked with taking part in the battle of Neuve Chapelle. Casualties were heavy. Kulbir had been part of a group of soldiers which had fought their way into a German trench despite all the odds, but in doing so every other party member had been killed.

Kulbir, though wounded himself, came across a wounded soldier of the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment and, against the protestations of the British soldier, stayed with the man for the rest of the day and following night. On the morning of the 26th, under the cover of mist, Kulbir carried the wounded man back out through the German wire and brought him to relative safety. He then returned and carried out two wounded Gurkhas one after the other. Finally, he returned once more, by this time in broad daylight, to the initial wounded British soldier and brought him to the full safety of the British lines. For the majority of this last trip he was under enemy fire, and it has been said that in at least one instance the German troops ceased fire and applauded Kulbir’s bravery.

For these actions Kulbir was immediately recommended for the Victoria Cross, which Indian Army soldiers had only been made eligible for four years previously. The recommendation was accepted and Kulbir Thapa became the first Gurkha soldier to receive the VC. Kulbir would go on to recover from his wound and be promoted to the rank of Havildar. He accompanied his regiment to Egypt after they left France later in 1915, and returned to India at the conclusion of the war. He received his pension upon retirement and died at home in Nepal on October 3rd 1956, aged 68.

Watch Kulbir's story in animation with our Gharma Siknu series!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBh_CIeUqi0
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25/09/2022

28/08/2022

28/08/2022

The stanwix trust at party in the park
Morpeth 2022

23/08/2022

The stanwix trust
Will be at pitp
Morpeth
26/27/27 august

24/05/2022

Massive thanks to
Ryan Joyce
Callan rytz
Kevin Mcdine
For the signed shirts and boards
Donated to the stanwix trust
Thank you ###