Fighting knife the Kukri, a broad-bladed, curved general-purpose cutting tool and weapon with Indian origins. In other countries the machete or Filipino Bolo were often used as fighting knives by indigenous military or paramilitary forces. Colonial powers that encountered these general-purpose weapons used as fighting knives during a military campaign occasionally adopted them in turn for use by their own military forces, as exemplified by the U.S. Army's Model 1910/17 "Bolo" brush-clearing knife, which would be later pressed into service as a fighting knife in both World Wars. In World War I, military use of the fighting knife saw the introduction of
The Gurkha Welfare Trust including mobile doctors. The teams distributed emergency financial, medical and material aid such as food and shelter in affected regions across the country. In the UK, the Trust launched an Earthquake Response appealIn the longer term, the charity committed to rebuilding the 1,100 homes for the Gurkha veterans and widows who were left homeless. It also pledged to build and repair hundreds of schools and water projects in affected areas. The Trust’s response was supported by troops from the UK Brigade of Gurkhas, predominantly of the Queen’s Gurkha Engineers, who assisted with relief distribution and reconstruction projects. 2015 marked the