Last of the Gurkhas arrive home from Afghanistan Around 80 members of A Company from 1st battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles (1RGR) were met by friends, family and colleagues when they arrived back at their regimental home at Sir John Moore Barracks, Folkestone, Kent. Two 1RGR servicemen, Lieutenant Edward Drummond-Baxter, 29, and Lance Corporal Siddhanta Kunwar, 28, died during the six-month Afghanistan tour by the unit. The battalion was spread out throughout the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan where they were engaged in a ground-holding operation. A Company is the last to return of 1RGR's 470-strong contingent which deployed to Afghanistan as part of 4 Mechanised Brigade, known as The Black Rats.