Exactly a hundred years ago in May 1915 the allied forces, stiffened by reinforcements from the Indian 29th Brigade, which included three Nepali Gurkha battalions, clustered on the beaches of ...

The kukri strapped to Mekhman Tamang’s hip belt is more than an ordinary family heirloom. When his father bequeathed the traditional knife to him 10 years ago, Tamang, a third-generation Gurkha ...

To the tune of a bagpipe, he bows his head low and then salutes, raising his right hand to his forehead. In this way, Bill Jenkins of Liverpool, UK remembers the Gurkha soldiers who lost their lives ...

Even when Britain’s military is shrinking, a regiment of fierce and loyal soldiers from Nepal still makes up 3 percent of its fighting force. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Gurkhas’ ...

Standing at 5-foot-3, the average Gurkha is easy to overlook, let alone be seen as a soldier. However, that mistaken belief may very well be your last thought if ever you meet a troop of Gurkhas in ...

"If someone says he has no fear, either he is lying or he is a Gurkha." That was how Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once described the legendary courage of the Gurkhas â men whose discipline, loyalty, ...

In 1815, the British Army tried to conquer Nepal, but it was easily defeated by Nepal’s warriors: the Gurkhas. So the British officers decided that, if they couldn’t beat them, they’d get the Gurkhas ...

Gurkhas have been part of the British Army for almost 200 years, but who are these fearsome Nepalese fighters? "Better to die than be a coward" is the motto of the world-famous Nepalese Gurkha ...