Queen's Gurkha Engineers Celebrate 73rd Birthday
A parade and display of Kukri use entertained a crowd of serving and former members of The Queens Gurkha Engineers.
A parade and display of Kukri use entertained a crowd of serving and former members of The Queens Gurkha Engineers.
The training is part of 'KFOR' – the peace support mission NATO has been running since the end of the Kosovo War.
Personnel are helping to vet and process evacuees before they are resettled across NATO countries, including the UK.
About 80% of recruits received their first choice regiment during the ceremony at Helles Barracks, Catterick.
The Government has agreed to enter talks with the Nepalese Embassy over equal pensions for Gurkha veterans.
The veteran, who has been on hunger strike next to the gates to Downing Street for 11 days, was treated for heart issues.
"Only a deep sense of injustice could drive these brave and respectful souls to this point," said Gurkhas activist Joanna Lumley.
Ben Wallace warned no government "of any colour" had ever made retrospective changes to pensions like the ones the demonstrators want.
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They are campaigning for equality because Gurkha veterans who retired before 1997 are not eligible for a UK Armed Forces pension.
Tul Bahadur Pun is remembered as a hero of the Gurkha Brigade
Since being formed in 1994, the Royal Gurkha Rifles have been deployed on operations around the world.
Captain Vivek Jung Shah is being awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
At Christmas, Gurkha units were called in to help carry out coronavirus tests on lorry drivers stranded in Kent, as part of Operation ROSE.