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IN A moving ceremony, the fami-
lies of two Gurkha soldiers killed
in Afghanistan have received
bravery medals awarded to their
lost loved ones.
The handing over of the awards this week
happened as the rest of Foxtrot Company of
the Royal Gurkha Rifles received their
Operational Service Medals following their
recent deployment in Afghanistan.
Around 80 members of the company, which
is made up of soldiers from the 1st and 2nd
Battalions received their medals at a ceremo-
ny at Sir John Moore Barracks in Folkestone.
The families of those who died were given
Elizabeth Crosses and accompanying scrolls.
These were presented to the relatives of two
of the comrades who died in the conflict.
Gruelling
They were Colour Sergeant Krishna Dura,
36, who was killed in an explosion in
November last year, and Corporal Kumar
Pun, who was part of Foxtrot Company and
killed in May by a suicide bomber.
The MoD said 31-year-old Corp Pun died
during a patrol in Gereshk, Helmand
Province, in an attack which also claimed the
life of a Royal Military police sergeant.
The MoD said the Nepal-born soldier was
the son of a British Gurkha, so he was always
destined to try to join one of the most feared
Regiments in the world, and in 1996 passed
the gruelling selection for the British Army.
He was posted to Church Crookham as a
Rifleman in A (Delhi) Company the 1st
Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles, with
whom he served in Malaysia, Kenya, Oman,
Belize, Kosovo, Brunei and Bosnia. This was
his first deployment toAfghanistan,where he
was delivering vital training and mentoring
to the Afghan National Police.
Colour Sergeant Dura was a Nepalese
Gurkha with 16 years of military experience
who died after his patrol came under a bomb
attack. He was in a Warrior armoured vehicle
at the time in the Musa Qala District of
Helmand Province.
He came from the Lamjung district of west-
ern Nepal and enlisted into the British Army
in 1992. He trained in Hong Kong and went
on to serve with the 7th Gurkha Rifles in
Church Crookham in the UK.
He had previously served in Bosnia
Herzegovina, East Timor and Sierra Leone
and was on his third tour of Afghanistan at
the time of his death. He had recently been
promoted and was leading a sniper platoon.
His commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel
Chris Darby said: "Colour Sergeant Krishna
was an exceptional soldier, a gifted leader."
The medals were presented by Major General
Lamont Kirkland CBE,watched by friends and
family of the regiment and fellow serving
Gurkhas.TheQueen'sTruncheon,equivalentto
the regimental colours, was paraded.
Foxtrot Company returned from
Afghanistan two weeks ago where they had
been engaged in helping to mentor the
Afghan National Police.
Major Chris Conroy, their commanding offi-
cer, said: "It was a tough but rewarding
deployment in which tragically our colleague
Corporal Kumar Pun was killed, but the boys
did an outstanding job out there under very
difficult circumstances and can be justly
proud of themselves today.
"We feel we have made a difference and
there has been a genuine and marked
improvement in the Afghan National Police."
By CHRIS MURPHY
editorial@kosmedia.co.uk
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