Visited a bootsale today and got chatting to a chap who had been in the Gurkhas for over 25 years. He was a captain in the Gurkha signals. He's served in Hong Kong, Bosnia, Falklands, Iraq and Belize. I bought a few jackets off him and uniforms and then asked if he had anything else. We got invited to go round later which we did and he said he had two knives if we were interested. Of course, we had to say yes, and out he came with this box, in it were these five kukris. One has Order Nepal and a number on it, and the other ceremonial ones have no markings. My favorite, is the smaller one which he said was his combat one. It is a private purchase and he made the cover himself out of a spare piece of DPM.
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