Your family seem to be a fine tribute to a courageous people. I have never seen finer soldiers than Gurkhas - in any army.

That's amazing. Gurkhas do a fantastic job congratulations to you and your family.

@@patvanquish4586 Thank you!

My husband served with your fir father's. Wonderful soldiers. Thank you.

@@lorraineg4168 Thank you!

As far as I’m aware, the casualties were Royal Marines musicians.

Do you guys like that rifle ?

Then we had better start looking after them better!!!

@@garywallace5526 We look after them very well as it happens.

I don't care who she is, she should not be in front of these troops with that weight. It's humiliating for these soldiers and endemic throughout the British Army.

@@johnbobson1557, Gurkhas, The World's Best Soldiers! They train each and every day. Always ready to defend freedom, equality and democracy. They definitely don't look down on Capt. Esther Hayes, they look down on and despise people like you.

@@riddick7082 Disagree, and having served with Gurkha Engineers out at The Hard and the old Gurkha units on II patrol in Sek Kong, and later on service in Brunei, at Seria, I'm well aware of their loyalty & skill set, and their shortcomings. At the moment some 10% of the entire British Army are excused boots, mainly on obesity related issue. It's wrong, it's of concern, and it's very well documented. 'Best troops in the world' I'd suggest is debateable, but that's another topic. At present our officer cadre is weak, and most academics feel this has always been the UK's Achilles heel. Today nobody but an idiot would join as all three Services have been cut to the bone and they even have to wheel out a female dentist to say 'it's changed!' ukposts.info/have/v-deo/namgl2icnGmd1qc.html

Thanks for watching This is the part 2 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/soOip3-Bj62Vu30.htmlsi=gyFwmV8gs9fSfNpE

The female Tour Guide needs to brush up on the information she telling the tourists!

I’m surprised she didn’t say the knives are for buttering their toast

I can only think that it may be a cavalry regiment's drum horse being taken out for a bit of exercise.

Or. If that comes charging towards you you tend to find you want to get out of the way

You believe absolute and complete nonsense.

The bandmaster is Rifles not Gurkha.

Actually it's not a "fairly foolish comment" at all, but 100% correct. All are wearing Kilmarnocks with a "bobble" except the bandmaster who's hat has a very obvious hackle and she outranks all except the inspecting officer. Sorry.

⁠​⁠@@John-GDid you miss the comment about the Guard’s that bigger the bearskins the more important they are? She left out the comment about the fact that the more chevrons the soldier had, the more important they were! I was sorry that we did not overhear any comment about the row of medals on the Sergeant’s chest! Cheers mate. Harera

@@pierevojzola9737 I didn't hear that, but it's actually also correct 😧. Other ranks' bearskins are made out of black bear pelts, while officers' are made from brown bear pelts dyed black, and the officers' bearskins stand slightly higher - they're not the same. I doubt she knew that, but evidently neither did you. Your comment about "chevrons" is also incorrect as its far from that simple. Guards regiments don't have Lance Corporals, their JNCO ranks start at Corporal, so a Guards "Corporal" with two stripes is actually the same rank as a Gurkha (or any other) lance corporal with one, so he's outranked by anyone else with two stripes; similarly a Guards Lance Sergeant with three is actually the same rank as a Corporal in any other unit with two. To the untrained eye, Sergeants in the Guards look like Colour / Staff Sergeants with a crown above the stripes but you can tell the difference by the colour of the crown, depending on the uniform. Drum Majors add another complication, with three (or four) upside-down chevrons, sometimes with a crown as well as a drum, since it's an appointment that can be held by a Sergeant, Colour / Staff Sergeant, or WO2; in my own regiment at one time the drum major unusually (possibly uniquely) wore five chevrons at one time, as well a crown and drum, when he was an acting WO1, standing in as RSM, but not the Senior Drum Major Army, always a WO1, so not entitled to Royal Arms. Clear as mud, unless you're used to it 😖. Medals don't necessarily mean operational tours - I've seen a WO2 in H Cav with a very impressive rack of five (LS&GC, Coronation, and Platinum, Diamond and Golden Jubilee medals) and in over twenty years service he hadn't done a single operational tour. No discredit to him at all, but that's sometimes how it is - a friend of mine left the Regular Army with two, joined the TA as a PSI, and by the time he left he had six without going further than the local drill hall.

@@John-GGood answers John. I was taking the piss as I could not stand the woman’s voice. I have served 20 years in three different armies and do know the back history and peculiarities of the British army. I served with the 1/7 Gurkhas in HK in 1959 - 60 and in 3 Para 60-66, I have a high regard of the Gurkha soldier but not of the Guards (even the Guards Independent Coy had some real idiots). Serving under “Farra the Para” was a very good experience for me as it introduced me to a good man management system as the Boss knew every soldier in his battalion by name and some history. As a foreigner in UK you learn to understand the Brits from the outside and that gives you a much greater understanding. Cheers mate. Harera

@@pierevojzola9737 After the mutiny of an entire company of 1/7 GR in 1986, who were 'administratively discharged', and the attempted murder of their British OC and the Gurkha Coy 2ic, the murder of a British OC in 1/2 GR with a booby trapped grenade in his desk drawer, where the Gurkha Coy 2ic died later of his injuries, and the MUGA scandal of the 80's where more than 6,000 of the Brigade had claimed MUGA fraudulently, nearly doubling their pay, it's difficult on those grounds alone to regard them too highly.

They have certainly seen a great deal of action but not more than the Brigade of Guards.

@@barrymcmanmon9595 yes if you go back centuries. But I can't remember seeing the brigade of guards I Malaysia etc

It wasn't a "stupid hat" comment, it was correct - the hackle on the bandmaster's hat is obviously much larger / higher than the Kilmarnocks, and she's the senior person present except for the inspecting officer. The "more action than the Guards" comment is badly misinformed. While the Gurkhas' history goes back to 1815 they've only been in the British Army since 1949 - prior to that they were in the British Indian Army. Pedantic, possibly, but while my regiment dates from 1572 it wasn't part of the English / British Army until nearly 100 years later so that's when we date from. Any comparison on "action" is not only out of order but totally meaningless - some regiments are / were far larger than others, for example, so comparisons are impossible.

​@@12dougreedYour memory needs refreshing. Badly.

@@John-G yes possibly. The Scots guards were in Borneo

And 5 seconds reading YOUR comment. You understand nothing of honour and respect

@@robertwillis4061, So tell me, what was so stunning about this? If watching soldiers stand at attention for an inspection, then you are easily entertained.

No, not on their own but when we need boots on the ground you would not want to be against these guys.

Utter Bollocks ignoramous!