29 trainee Sappers from Gurkha Recruit Intake 25, newly assigned to The Queen’s Gurkha Engineers (QGE), successfully completed the 10‑week Combat B2 Royal Engineers Course at Gibraltar Barracks, Minley, on 13 March 2026.
To mark their achievement, Lieutenant Colonel R. D. Grant (Commanding Officer, 3 Royal School of Military Engineering Regiment), Major Jamie Small (Officer Commanding, 55 Training Squadron), and Captain Joseph Subba (Curragh Troop Commander) presented each Sapper with the Corps of Royal Engineers Stable Belt.
Congratulations to the following personnel on the course.
- Corporal Deepak Magar – Best Section Commander
- Sapper Sapun Rai – Overall top student
- Sapper Sumit Sigdel – Top academic student
- Sapper Hrithik Subba – Best resilient soldier
Photographs by BFBS Gurkha
