Gurkha tributes

Comrades of a Gurkha who was killed in Afghanistan have described him as a “born leader of men”.

Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung from the 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was serving as a part of Combined Force Nahr-e Saraj (North), and was on foot patrol to disrupt insurgent activity when he received a fatal gunshot wound on Friday.

Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Dan Bradbury said: “He touched so many lives for the better. His peers in Delhi Company and all of us in command knew him as an intelligent, charismatic natural leader of men.”