In Kipling's poem Gunga Din what job had Gunga Din?
Gunga Din (film) long-time friends and veteran campaigners. Although they are a disciplinary headache for their colonel, they are the right men to send on a dangerous mission. Accompanying the detail are six Indian camp workers, including regimental "bhisti" (water carrier) Gunga Din, who longs to throw off his lowly status and become a soldier of the Queen. They find Tantrapur apparently deserted and set about repairing the telegraph. However, they are soon surrounded by hostile natives. The troops fight their way out, taking heavy losses. Colonel Weed and Major Mitchell identify an enemy weapon brought back by the survivors as belonging to
Gunga Din series. The English singer Peter Bellamy included a setting of the poem on his record of "Barrack Room Ballads". In 1966, songwriter Jim Croce set the words to music and released it on his "Facets" album. In 2015, The Libertines, an English rock band, composed the single "Gunga Din" for their comeback album Anthems for Doomed Youth. Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H) made multiple references to "Gunga Din". Gunga Din "Gunga Din" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling, set in British India. The poem is much-remembered by its final line: "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din", often quoted