Tag: #British Army
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Home away from home
Tales of valour and a serendipitous family bond of a British Army colonel who made Nepal his home
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right.It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers…
A forgotten Gurkha rebellion
GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right.It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers…
Diary of a Nepali soldier in France
Gurkhas in the trenches of France during World War I. More than 20,000 Nepali soldiers were killed fighting for the Allied Forces between…
Girl Gurkhas
Recruitment of women into the British Gurkha Brigade is on hold, but women who trained remain hopeful
Two new books on conflict and conservation
Photo: AKASH CHETTRISam Cowan’s Essays on Nepal: Past and Present deserves a more creative title. But being a retired Colonel Commandant of the…
The time has come for a Gurkha Peace Corps
It is now more than 200 years that men from Nepal have joined the British Army to fight, if needs be, in support of Britain’s overseas…
Lest we forget
Nepali soldiers and porters assemble in Tundikhel in 1915 before marching down to India to join the Allied forces in Europe, Turkey and West…
They shall not grow old
Young and confident faces smile into the camera, eager to enlist in a war that has just broken out after the assassination of Archduke Franz…
Lost in reconstruction
OLD TO NEW: Barpak before the earthquake destroyed most of its buildings, and today with its haphazard modern concrete structures. Barpak was at…