Young Gurkhas get to grips with life on the water as they test key boating skills
New members of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers have been adding watermanship to their skillset alongside demolition work and building bridges.
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Gurkhas New Gurkha engineers perfect the art of building bridges
Forces News joined the 55 Training Squadron based at Minley as they taught their brand-new engineers the art of bridge building.
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Gurkhas Gurkha Museum to add Nepali voice to exhibits during closure for modernisation and update
Changes will account for the growing Nepalese community in the UK.
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Gurkhas Gurkha recruits get welcome like no other as they arrive in UK and head to Catterick
It's a life-changing moment for the 2024 intake as the recruits leave Nepal and start training to become soldiers in the Brigade of Gurkhas.
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Gurkhas Watch: Head of Army welcomes over 300 recruits into the Brigade of Gurkhas
Three hundred and thirty-seven Gurkha recruits swore their allegiance to King Charles III at their attestation parade in Pokhara, Nepal.
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Army Head of British Army pays tribute to Gurkhas during visit to Nepal to meet new recruits
Loyalty, resilience, toughness and professionalism are all hallmarks of the Gurkha soldier, says the Chief of the General Staff.
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Gurkhas Gurkhas off with a bang as new batch of engineers learn how to blow things up
Braving freezing temperatures, new members of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers get their first taste of working with live explosives.
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Gurkhas 'Living legend' Gurkha veteran celebrates 106th birthday
The Gurkha Welfare Trust's AWC Bagmati team joined Dhan Bahadur Baje at his home, with his family members and neighbours.
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Gurkhas Check a trade: new Gurkha engineers take test to determine future role in Army
Newly qualified members of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers take a trade selection test to find out what job they'll be taking on.
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Army British soldiers embedded with Japanese armed forces for first time in major training exercise
The exercise involved the first joint live fire training carried out by the two forces
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Gurkhas British Army's newest Gurkhas pass out at Catterick after months of training
It follows nine months of phase one and phase two infantry training
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Gurkhas Wounded Gurkha veteran's historic climb of Everest honoured by the Lords
Earlier this year, Hari Budha Magar became the first double above-knee amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Gurkhas Families and veterans travel to Kent to celebrate 75 years of Queen's Gurkha Engineers
Invicta Barracks in Maidstone, Kent, hosted the event attended by military families and veterans from across the UK and Nepal.
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Gurkhas Harlequins rugby team take on Gurkhas' gruelling 72-hour training camp
The camp challenged the athletes physically, mentally and psychologically.
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Gurkhas Gurkha recruits take on their most challenging test yet
Eight months into that process, this is the most difficult test the men have faced ahead of joining the illustrious Brigade of Gurkhas.
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Gurkhas Veteran starring in new film Gurkha Warrior bringing bravery of Gurkhas to big screen
A former soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan plays a section commander in Gurkha Warrior which is set during the Malayan Emergency