Gurkhas in the British Army
For over a century and a half, men from the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal have enlisted in the Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies. In modern times, their fighting skills have been used in the First World War trenches, in the Jungles of Burma, along the borders of Hong Kong, and across the moorland of the Falklands.
Andrew Joynes looks at the close connection between the British officer and his Gurkha soldiers, and asks how long Nepal will continue to send her men to foreign wars.
Producer WILLIAM HORSLEY (Repeated: Fri 11.3 am)