Tag: #British Gurkha
Articles tagged with #British Gurkha
Not taking loyalty for granted
Retired British Gurkha soldier relives the Falklands war and the Hawaii brawl
The King and I
Former Gurkha officer decorated by King Charles for 25 years of charity work in Nepal
Beginning of the end of the Gorkha Empire
Kangra Fort in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, as seen from Maharaja Sansar Chandra Museum. The battle for this fortress in 1815 was a…
Atom bomb saved his life, Covid killed him
Bal Bahadur Basnet, died of Covid-19 at the age of 99. Photos: MANISH PAUDELA Nepali soldier in the British Army who was captured by 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…
Hanging out with the headhunters
How experience in eco-tourism development in Nepal came handy in Borneo
A military-migrant economy
Families enable ex-Gurkhas to continue global private security workA security worker from Pokhara before boarding his flight to Afghanistan. He…