The Gurkha Welfare Trust the Prince of Wales. The Trust has three Vice Patrons; Field Marshal the Lord Bramall of Bushfield KG GCB OBE MC JP DL, Field Marshal Sir John Chapple GCB CBE DL and Joanna Lumley OBE. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Lieutenant General Nick Pope CBE. Each year, by tradition, all serving officers and other ranks in the Brigade of Gurkhas contribute a day's pay to the Trust. In 1969, it was realised that a great number of Gurkha soldiers and their dependants or widows in Nepal faced destitution in old age. Many of these soldiers had served
HMS Gurkha (F20) HMS Gurkha (F20) HMS "Gurkha" was a destroyer that saw active service in the Norway Campaign in 1940, where she was sunk. On 10 March 1936, two Tribal-class destroyers were ordered from Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, "Gurkha" (originally "Ghurka") and . Both ships were laid down at Fairfield's Govan, Glasgow shipyard on 6 July 1936, and "Gurkha" was launched on 7 July 1937. Like many of the Tribals, completion of "Gurkha", originally scheduled for February 1938, was delayed by late delivery of equipment, and she was not completed until 21 October 1938. "Gurkha" was long overall and between perpendiculars.