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

EXCLUSIVE: The new Gurkha regiment will provide the UK with a new and very capable asset, while filling gaps caused by a recruitment crisis at home.

have been awarded to Gurkha Regiments. Nearly 28,000 Gurkha candidates compete for just 200 places in the British Army each year. In order to qualify, they are required to do 75 bench jumps in one ...

If and when there is a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, the British Army’s Gurkha soldiers deployed there ... John Healy announcing the formation of a 500-strong Gurkha Artillery regiment to be ...

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 ...

For more than 200 years, the British army has recruited soldiers from Nepal for its Gurkha regiment. Gurkhas have fought as British soldiers in two world wars and other notable conflicts.

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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 ...

Fearsome Gurkha soldiers will be used to form a new Army regiment that ... unit attached to the Royal Regiment of Artillery It comes as the head of the British Army, General Sir Roly Walker ...