Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Prince Harry is reunited with Ghurka fighter

March 23, 2016 :

The tree planting was an echo of Harry's mother, Princess Diana, who planted a tree at the British Gurkha Camp, Kathmandu in 1993

The Prince's next engagement was the most formal of his tour of Nepal so far, and he had to have another wash before changing into his No.1 uniform for a wreath-laying ceremony at Gurkha headquarters in Pokhara

Prince Harry was today reunited with a Gurkha fighter he first met 26 years ago on a visit to Salisbury Plain in Wilthisre with his father Prince Charles, as he attended an engagement at the Gurkha headquarters in Pokhara as part of his official five day visit to Nepal.

Prince Harry lays a wreath for Gurkha killed fighting for the British abroad. Each year 240 Nepali young men are selected to join the British Army, following a highly competitive and rigorous series of physical and mental tests

Retired Major Bishnukumar Pun, 57, was famously pictured with the then six-year-old Harry during the visit and shared the photo with the Prince today, joking that they both looked somewhat different now.

After placing the wreath Harry saluted the monument erected in memory of Gurkha's killed fighting for the British abroad

During the event the Prince also learned more about the work of the Gurkha Welfare Scheme and the famously gruelling Gurkha recruitment process