These soldiers will be equipped with surface-to-air missile systems like Javelin. Currently, the British Army is facing a shortage of artillery guns and ammunition, primarily due to its large-scale ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...