The amazing thing is he then went onto become a member of the sas, thats some man.

Slim abused children.

Still an exploitation of poorer Nepalese

clean your lens

This was so interesting. My grandfather was a Chindit who took part in operation Thursday. He was an RSM in The Black Watch, who served in the defence and evacuation of Crete and the relief and subsequent breakout of Tobruk, before being sent to India in preparation for operation Thursday. He was mentioned in a book about the 51st Highland division, as `RSM Wilkie giving a talk on a soldiers life in India` on the troopship Empress of Australia, on the voyage to India In preparation for operation Thursday. He served `The Black Watch Royal Highland regiment` from 1920 - 1945 and was one of the small group of survivors.

It's hard to imagine how your opinion on terminology could be more offensive. It wasn't a pay dispute

Semantics! It would've been better for them to be mercenaries and getting paid then. I read they're fighting to get their pensions from the Brit. According to what I read, their wages were 300% lower than the British soldiers. Why would a bunch of Asians fight for the British empire?

Wow, what a privilege to handle that katana

Maratha is pronounced: "Marr-Atta"

Dont unsheath like that, thats how you get your hand sliced

I carry mine to work once in a while. Amazing what those guys can do with an old truck leaf spring. Just stumbled upon your channel. Lots of good stuff dude.

All involved look up The escape of Harry powel Stephenson my farther and his friend escaped to fight anther day god bless them all

He was a great general. He was also an abuser of children not just in India. But also in Australia during his time there. Many victims of slim were able to come out and talk about their abuse at his hands much later.

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None of argentine vehicles was hit by this weapon ..It was used against argentine machineguns

Sad how many Ww2 katanas American marines burnt after the war

Thank you, John, Bob and Ray for an excellent lecture. Having just returned from an excellent tour of Kohima and the battlefields of Northeast India led by Dr. Robert Lyman, Slim's biographer, I found your comments insightful and illuminating. Good job!

it was he who broke the myth of the invincible Japanese army. The victories in kohima and Imphal was die to the fact that the British did not budge even though surrounded, unlike in Malaya/ Burma. This one move frustrated the japanese to defeat

Maps, Maps, Maps! I consider myself a knowledgeable WW2 history aficionado, and I was barely able to follow the movements in broad general locations. Glad I found your channel.

Clean blade?

The absolute last person to be wielding that neglected piece of history.

Beautiful piece 👌

Hari, What an Amazing Guy! Just listen to his positive attitude in overcoming his disability. Tell the world his story . I would like to meet him sometime .

A Great General Slim.

Slim was educated at King Edward's School, Edgbaston in Birmingham. Not St Philip's.

What is the Over-All length of that Kukri? Where did you buy that sir?

So now I truly understand why my uncle ( younger brother of my papa ) & brother both served in 2/7 Gurkha fought in Burma campaign never tired of speaking highly of Slim saheb ! Their tryst began in Shillong !

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REspect my dad served under Slim in the forgotten army

It's older.ww2 era katanas had cast handles.

They were not decoits they were rulers who were freedom fighters of gurjar clan

Open the tang snd the history will be revealed

If VICTORIA CROSS from GREATER NEPAL is counted then all together 16 VICTORIA CROSS was won:: 12 From NEPAL 2 From Uttarakhand 1 From HIMANCHAL & 1 From Sikkim 13 VICTORIA CROSS WINNER from GORKHA RIFLES 12 FROM NEPAL 1) Kulbir Thapa Magar 2) Karna Bahadur Rana Magar 3) Lal Bahadur Thapa Magar 4) Netra Bahadur Thapa Magar 5) Tul Bahadur Pun Magar 6) Lachhiman Gurung 7) Thaman Gurung 8) Bhanu Bhakta Gurung 9) Gaje Ghale Gurung 10) Sher Bahadur Thapa Chhetri 11) AganSing Rai 12) Ram Bahadur Limbu FROM SIKKIM GORKHA RIFLES 13) Ganju Lama TWO VICTORIA CROSS FROM GARHWAL RIFLES UTTARAKHAND 14) Gabar Singh Negi Chhetri World War1 15) Darwan Singh Negi Chhetri World War 1 ONE VICTORIA CROSS From HIMANCHAL Pradesh 16) RAM BHANDARI Chhetri World War 2 KHAS ( CHHETRI ,PAHADE BHRAHMIN ,SARKI, DAMAHI, KAMI, GIRI, PURI, SANYASI) from and around GARHWAL , KUMAON region were largely recruited in 5 different GORKHA RIFLES. MALAUN Regiment Later renamed 1 GR SIRMOOR Rifles Later renamed 2 G R KUMAON Regiment Later renamed 3 G R These Regiment name were given from places of UTTARAKHAND. During ANGLO NEPAL war (1 November 1814 A.D.- 4 March 1816 A.D.) These Regiments were created from POW ( PRISONERS OF WAR) in 1815 A.D from KHAS from KUMAON, GARHWAL , Khas, Gurung,Magar from present NEPAL and small numbers of MOUNTAIN and HIMALAYAN tribes were enlisted in 3 REGIMENTS. Later in 1887 A.D. GARHWAL , KUMAON Rifles were created by partitioning soldiers from GORKHA RIFLES. That's why army of GARHWAL RIFLE , KUMAON RIFLE still carry KHUKURI as personal weapon. ALMIGHTY GOD KABEER CREATOR of all SOULS 🙏🙏🙏 SAINT RAMPALJI MAHARAJ is the present MESSENGER of ALMIGHTY KABIR GOD 🙏🙏🙏

It's not Poonjub. It must be pronounced "Pun" as in "Bun" and "Jaab" as in na "Wab" (Nawab) and also, Sutlej - that word should be pronounced as "Sut" as in "Hut" and rest of that is how it is pronounced in this video.

My dad has a type 98. He found it at an estate sale. The owner had no idea how to take care of it so he gave it to my dad for $20 since it was so badly rusted. Any collector would leave it as it. Not my dad. He put that bitch in the vice and grinded down the rust all the way and sharpened it back up. While almost ruining the value of it, he doesn't care. He always told me "son, you have to realize that the value of a weapon is the user behind it. A weapon is worthless if it sits on a shelf, regardless of the pricetag." Thats why whenever i find/buy an antique, i always just fix it up instead of letting time take its course even more. Its more fun that way. Id rather have a functional and deadly peice of art than one that would fall apart from being so badly damaged

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Appreciate this as I'm studying the period now!

I like the term Indian Mutiny. It was the Bengal sepoys who mutinied. Very impressive presentation. I was privileged to ready a reproduced copy of Major Reid's diary belonging to a former officer of the 2nd King Edward VII's Gurkha rifles.

The only practical reason behind division of india is to cut indian trade from central asia and british still gets to control the region even after leaving.

Fake story'

LIVING BEING IS OUR RACE, MANKIND IS OUR RELIGION, HINDU,MUSLIM,SIKH,CHRISTAIN, THERE IS NO SEPARATE RELIGION ALMIGHTY GOD KABIR is the father of all souls that JESUS, MOHAMMAD, GURU NANAK, VEDH was telling in BIBLE, QURAN, GURU GRANTHA SAHEB .. In OLD Orthodox Jewish Bible KABIR is mentioned...KABIR means (GREAT or MIGHTY GOD) in hebrew...but when translated in different languages translator removed KABIR word Quran written in arabic has also KABIR word....KABIR means THE GREAT in arabic. In vedh also KABIR is mentioned.... GURU NANAK himself described that LORD KABIR is his Guru and Lord KABIR met him..and in GURU GRANTHA SAHEB Guru Nanak called Lord kabir as kartar (GOD)

Thank you for covering a topic that has and continues to effect generations of South Asians. The political narratives of our times tends to drown out the tragedy of the partition.

He ignored the prima Donna MacArthur orders of not to humiliate Japanese commanders ,by taking the swords of them he replied in a very British manner when he knew how barbaric Japanese soldiers treated British/, commonwealth troops prisoners of war by deliberately giving a two fingered salute ✌️ to MacArthur by taking the sword's of the japs commanders in front their men

Jinna was a bigoted greedy bastard. The British were and are sons of bitches and a racist people.

IMHO William Slim was the best British 💯✨general in WW2.

The Moghuls were not Indian either. More White man bad bull. I love how they always seem to forget, other peoples did bad things, too. But hey, they have no problem using all the tech and modern world stuff, brought by the White man. Fertilizer, clean drinking water, railroads,telephone; radio; electricity; oil; natural gas; and on and on. But the Chinese invented the compass and gun powder. You use Arabic numerals and the Indians had "zero," or "naught" as you Brits say. Whitean bad is tiresome. Give up the tech and its benefits, if you are so unhappy. Because, I'm sure living in a caste world of a hundred kingdoms is way better.

Fascinating stuff! Greetings from Greece.

Slim's memoir of his time in Burma is a great read, so good in fact it was hard to put down. His humility and honesty are refreshing and the struggles he faced in the backwater of the war make his achievements all the more laudable.

There's a more than a substantial reason that Monty 'churlishly' refused to endorse Slim.

Excellent thank you. God bless the loyal and courageous Gurkhas