He has been helping to raise thousands of pounds for Gurkhas and is calling for help from the younger generation. [break]
Harman, chairman of the Mid-Norfolk Support Group of the Gurkha Welfare Trust, has been raising funds for the charity for more than 15 years.
The 87-year-old, who first got involved with the trust due to family links, raised £7,000 last year and has already raised £4,000 this year from visiting supermarkets with collection buckets, holding tombolas and table-top sales and giving talks around the county.
Now, he is looking for more young people to get involved and an IT expert to help him set up a website to run a campaign to get justice for the 10,600 Gurkha veterans/widows in Nepal whom the Gurkha Welfare Trust supports.
Harman, a war veteran who last week celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary with his wife Rosina, said: "I would love to get some younger people involved. I cannot hope to keep going much longer.
"I would like to get some help to set up a website. I don´t have a clue about the web or how to organize a website so I would like someone to help set it up for me and show me how to keep it going. I´ve got the capacity to do it, I just don´t know where to start."
The father-of-four and grandfather-of-six who lives in Reepham, said he first decided to devote his time to the charity after his eldest son, Paul, an intelligence officer, was shot dead by snipers in an IRA ambush while on active duty in Belfast 30 years ago.
The former civil servant said: "I knew about Gurkhas when I was a youngster. My father was in the trenches in 1917 when he was concussed. He was helped by a Gurkha. When he came to, he found out that this Gurkha who was just 5ft 2in dragged him, a 6ft ex-amateur boxer, across no man´s land.
"My son Paul also met many Gurkhas on duty and spoke highly of them. He spoke of how they behaved and how disciplined they were. When he was ambushed and killed, it gave me an incentive to do something for them."
Gurkhas´ TV role for Jonathan Ross
Gurkhas had a really great time when they appeared on BBC One´s flagship chat show Friday Night With Jonathan Ross.
Retired corporal Chandra Bahadur Budathoki and retired lieutenant Madan Kumar Gurung, who live in James Butcher accommodation in Theale, accompanied actress and Gurkha rights campaigner, Joanna Lumley, onto the stage to be interviewed by controversial TV presenter Ross.
The two ex-soldiers, both of whom were invited to No 10 Downing Street following last month´s changes to the Government´s settlement rights policy, were joined by American rockers The Killers and Catholic global music phenomenon The Priests afterward in the hospitality room´ known as the green room.
Chandra said: "It was wonderful. I have never met Jonathan before but I have watched his program. "He was very nice and seemed genuinely happy to meet us and spent around 15 minutes with us, even though he was very busy.
"We both really enjoyed meeting the other guests and leading Joanna to the stage. It was a great experience in life and so many people have been calling me to say they saw us on the television. It was amazing. When we were in the green room we could not stop laughing."
During the interview Ross, famous for pronouncing Rs as Ws, asked the Gurkhas about the myth of their deadly Kukri knives and they were able to confirm that, once removed from their sheaths, they must taste blood.
Last week Reading-based charity, the Forgotten British Gurkha, was officially launched and announced its intentions to set up a Gurkha Center in the town for the former soldiers, which would offer a range of services including English classes, vocational training and assistance with job applications.
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