The men were taken prisoner and the Gurkhas unsheathed their huge curved "kukri" knives. The incident is Captain Rai's most abiding memory of the war. He said: "The Argies were terrified that we ...
On a cold evening in November 1996, a troop of Nepalese Gurkha soldiers from ... and carrying curved swords and knives, they performed their traditional kukri dance with heavy hearts.