Tales of valour and a serendipitous family bond of a British Army colonel who made Nepal his home
GRU in Brunei in the early 1990s, with Ram Kangdangwa, sitting third from right.It was evening in September 1996, and some of us Gurkha soldiers…
Gurkhas in the trenches of France during World War I. More than 20,000 Nepali soldiers were killed fighting for the Allied Forces between…
Recruitment of women into the British Gurkha Brigade is on hold, but women who trained remain hopeful
Photo: AKASH CHETTRISam Cowan’s Essays on Nepal: Past and Present deserves a more creative title. But being a retired Colonel Commandant of the…
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…
Nepali soldiers and porters assemble in Tundikhel in 1915 before marching down to India to join the Allied forces in Europe, Turkey and West…
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…
OLD TO NEW: Barpak before the earthquake destroyed most of its buildings, and today with its haphazard modern concrete structures. Barpak was at…
