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.

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 ...

Fearsome Gurkha soldiers will be used to form a new ... Tank Corps captain who spent a year on secondment with the Nepalese warriors. "The great thing about Gurkhas is that you teach them how ...