Who Are Gurkhas?

They are world-famous soldiers from Nepal who serve in the Nepal army, the British army, the Indian army, and the Singapore police. Gurkhas have served in various conflicts worldwide, including world wars and peacekeeping forces.

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“Bravest of the brave, most generous of generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you”

-Professor Sir Ralph Turner Mc

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” If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha.”

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

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“When you know you are with the Gurkhas, I think there’s no safer to be really.”

-Prince Harry

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It was easy to command such people. it was a privilege to be allowed to do so.”

-Patrick Davis, “a child at Arms(1970)”

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“To serve with a Gurkha soldier under the British Crown was, and is, a rare privilege with nobody who has shared it can ever forget.”

-Colonel B R Mullalay

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“The Gorkhas keeps faith not only with his fellow men but with great spiritual concepts, and above all, with himself”

-John Masters