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Article: Former Gurkhas, British soldiers reunite in Nepal
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- March 6, 2004
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BINOD JOSHI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-06-2004
Dateline: POKHARA, Nepal
More than 2,600 former British soldiers and Nepalese Gurkhas who served in the British army's Second Gurkha Rifle regiment were reunited Saturday in midwest Nepal to mark 10 years since the regiment was disbanded.
The unit was disbanded in 1994 before the British government returned Hong Kong, where most of them had been stationed, to China.
The men, some wearing worn-out uniforms decorated with medals, exchanged stories of their experiences fighting for the British Army around the world.
A military band played as the former soldiers marched inside the tightly guarded British Army Camp in Pokhara, about 200 ...