Kukri Kukri The kukri or khukuri ( "khukuri") is a knife, originating from the Indian subcontinent, associated with the Nepali speaking Gurkhas of Nepal and India. The knife has an inwardly curved blade, similar to a machete, used as both a tool and as a weapon in the Indian subcontinent. Traditionally, it was, and in many cases still is, the basic utility knife of the Gurkha. It is a characteristic weapon of the Nepalese Army, the Royal Gurkha Rifles of the British Army, the Assam Rifles, the Assam Regiment, the Garhwal Rifles, the Gorkha regiments of the Indian Army, and of
Gurkha Memorial, London of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles 8th Gurkha Rifles9th Gurkha Rifles 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 11th Gurkha Rifles The Royal Gurkha Rifles The Queen's Gurkha Engineers Queen's Gurkha Signals Gurkha Military Police The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment Other units in which Gurkha soldiers served after 1815 and also the units of the Royal Nepalese Army which, as Britain's allies, took part in the Indian Mutiny and the First and Second World Wars. India 1816–1826 North East Frontier and Burma