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==Biography==
{{Spoiler|source= Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)}}
A big, muscular man, it has been said of Gol Kolea that courage and determination ooze out of him like sweat{{Cite This}}; even [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]] has admitted that he would not like to get on the wrong side of the fierce ex-miner{{Cite This}}, a man who attacked the [[Chaos Lord]] [[Heritor Asphodel]] with nothing but an axe-rake and lived to tell the tale.{{Fn|1a}}
Gol Kolea was an ore-worker in the Deep Mining shafts of Vervunhive up until the [[Zoican]] invasion.{{Fn|1b}} Trapped underground, Kolea discovered he was a natural leader when he managed to get the surviving miners up to the surface, where they fell in with a [[Vervun Primary]] Defence Unit under [[Captain]] [[Olin Fencer]].{{Fn|1c}} When this unit was overrun and destroyed, the survivors looked to Kolea for leadership.{{Fn|1d}} This "[[Scratch Company]]" would go on to play a very important role in ending the invasion, when it was selected to guide an elite Imperial Guard commando team infiltrating Asphodel's command vehicle.{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1a}}