THE widow of a Gurkha captain who died on a training exercise has asked for his body to be repatriated to Nepal.

Cpt Benuprasad Limbu, 39, who served with the 36 Royal Engineer Regiment at Invicta Barracks, Maidstone, will be returned to his home country after a coroner’s verdict has been finalised. He will be buried in the British Gurkhas Cemetery in Dharan.

A post mortem examination was carried out yesterday but the Army has said that the medical records are confidential.

Cpt Limbu collapsed on a training march in the Blue Bell Hill area on Tuesday, one day before his 40th birthday. He was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

As well a widow, he leaves two children. His death is not being treated as suspicious. A date for the opening of the inquest has not yet been fixed.