Current units of the Brigade of Gurkhas

Almost 200 years ago troops in support of the British East India Company invaded Nepal. They suffered heavy casualties at the hands of the Gurkhas and signed a hasty peace deal and offered to pay the Gurkhas to join their army. A soldier of the 87th Foot wrote in his memoirs: "I never saw more steadiness or bravery exhibited in my life. Run they would not, and of death they seemed to have no fear, though their comrades were falling thick around them".

Some 200,000 Gurkhas then fought in the British Army in the First and Second World Wars - in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine, Salonika and in the desert with Lawrence of Arabia and then across Europe and the Far East in World War II. They have since served in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Borneo, Cyprus, the Falklands, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Current units of the Brigade of Gurkhas include:

• HQ, Brigade of Gurkhas, based at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Surrey
• British Gurkhas Nepal
• 1st and 2nd Battalions, The Royal Gurkha Rifles
• The Queen's Gurkha Engineers based within 36 Engineer Regiment, Invicta Park Barracks, Maidstone
• The Queen's Gurkha Signals, based in York, Bramcote, Blandford and Stafford. There are additional Troop locations in Nepal and Brunei.
• 10 Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment RLC, based at Aldershot Garrison.
• Gurkha Staff and Personnel Support Company
• The Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
• Gurkha Company, 3rd Battalion, Infantry Training Centre, Catterick
• The Gurkha Company (Sitang), Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
• The Gurkha Company (Mandalay), Infantry Battle School, Brecon
• Brigade of Gurkhas Training Team
• Gurkha Language Wing, Catterick