Lt Gen Nick Pope CBE, deputy chief of the general staff and colonel commandant for the Brigade of Gurkhas, said the decision reflected "the openness and diversity of the British army". He added ...

The Ministry of Defence has said that a British Army officer with the Gurkha brigade was among those taken but given no further details about him. The men, who went missing in the mountainous ...

A former British army officer is attempting the 'fastest ever' Everest mission, with help from xenon gas. Everest could 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 ...

Former Gurkha soldiers have threatened to resume hunger strikes in a long-running dispute with the British government over their pension rights. Soldiers who retired before 1997 receive a fraction ...

After being cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, members of the former British Gurkha armed forces and their families have come together once again to participate in the Anzac Day ...

Talking yesterday on BBC World Services' Calling the Falklands programme, 19 years after the Argentine surrender, Nermail Rai, a Falklands veteran who still serves in the British Army with the ...

The teenagers’ instructor is training them for the next round of the Gurkha recruitment programme which will admit them into the British Army or the Singapore Police Force. Shishir Bhattari ...

With the tide of war changing in the allies favor, by May 9, the Japanese began retreating, prompting the British to deploy two companies of the 4th Gurkhas to obstruct their escape. However ...