The men were taken prisoner and the Gurkhas unsheathed their huge curved "kukri" knives. The incident is Captain Rai's most abiding memory of the war. He said: "The Argies were terrified that we ...

Nepal is famed as the home of the equally famed Gurkha soldiers ... A feature of their equipment was the kukri—a small double-edged, curved knife. According to tradition, the kukri must be ...