It is 1814 and the Bengal Army of the Honourable East India Company
is at war with a marauding Nepal. It is here that the British first
encounter the martial spirit of their indomitable foe - the Gurkha
hill men from that mountainous independent land. Impressed by their
fighting qualities and with the end of hostilities in sight the
Company begins to recruit them into their own ranks. Since then
these light hearted and gallant soldiers have successfully
campaigned wherever the British Army has served - from the North
West Frontier of India through two World Wars to the contemporary
battlefields of the Falklands islands and Afghanistan's Helmand
Province, with well over one hundred battle honours to their name
and at a cost of 20,000 casualties. In this talk General Duffell
separates fact and myth and recounts something of the history,
character and spirit of these loyal and dedicated soldiers seen
through the prism of his own service and campaigning as a regular
officer in the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, as the
Brigade of Gurkhas Major General and as Regimental Colonel of the
Royal Gurkha Rifles.
General
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