These soldiers will be equipped with surface-to-air missile systems like Javelin. Currently, the British Army is facing a ...

I'm eight years old and I live in Surrey. Today I'm meeting Captain Ganesh Rai, who is a special kind of soldier in the British army, called a Gurkha. My father is also a Gurkha. Captain Ganesh ...

“Gurkhas are excellent soldiers. Would-be recruits go through a highly-competitive process - fewer than ten per cent make it. So the British army only gets the very best." The MoD was contacted ...

It has long been a legend of the Falklands War that the Argentines defending Stanley were so terrified of the Gurkhas ... who still serves in the British Army with the rank of Captain, confirmed ...

The Duke of Edinburgh told new Gurkha recruits to be proud of being a “soldier in the British army but a son of Nepal” as he attended their attestation ceremony. Edward and his wife Sophie met ...

Bhim Limbu was confirmed dead at Lower Leas Coastal Park in Sandgate Road, Folkestone on March 5. Details surrounding his ...

If and when there is a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, the British Army’s Gurkha soldiers deployed there could be in a theatre of war in which fellow Nepalis have been fighting for both sides.

The parade celebrates the shared history and more than 200- year partnership between the UK and Nepal and the service of Gurkhas in the British Army, as well as the opportunity it offers to young ...

On a cold evening in November 1996, a troop of Nepalese Gurkha soldiers from the Royal Gurkha Rifles gathered at their barracks in Hong Kong for the last time. Clad in traditional kits and ...

It is a utility tool in the home and a lethal weapon on active service.Gurkha soldiers from Nepal have served and fought alongside British military personnel since 1815. They have fought in the ...