Sirmooree #80

2 CONTENTS President’s Foreword 3 Chairman’s Letter 5 2GR Regimental Trust – An Update 7 Editorial 10 Honorary Secretary’s Notes & Notices 11 The Sirmoor Register: − Honours and Awards 16 − Deaths 16 − Obituaries 18 Sirmoor Club Activities − Sirmoor Golf Society 32 − Sirmoor Piscatorial Society 40 − Sirmoor Shooting Society 42 − Sirmoor Yacht Squadron 45 − ‘Armchair’ Battlefield Tours 53 − Battlefield Tour of the Western Front September 2018 54 Sirmoor Club Nepal 60 Sirmoor Sathies 70 Royal Gurkha Rifles 73 Articles: − A Sirmoor Spy: The Extraordinary Life of 93 Honorary Brigadier Robin ‘Tin Eye’ Stephens − Scott Leathart’s Story 102 − Ornostalgia 106 − Bujhing the Kura (Early Difficulties Learning Gurkhali) 114 − More about the Sangola Bugles 119 − Hari Budha Magar – Conquering Dreams 120 Book Reviews 124 Officers of the Sirmoor Club and Regimental Trustees 128 Editor: Nick Hinton, 26 Crabtree Lane, Harpenden, Herts AL5 5TE; Phone 07808 247861, Email: njhhinton@gmail.com. All rights reserved. Contents of The Sirmooree may not be reproduced without prior permission of the Editor. Views expressed are not necessarily those of the Sirmoor Club or Editor. www.2ndGoorkhas.com