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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Interestingly, he had recommended to enlist <b>Gurkhas</b> in the British Army when he was still fighting against <b>Gurkhas</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The first battalion was named as Sirmoor Battalion, but later on it was renamed as 2nd King Edward VII's Own <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles-And</b> believe it or not, this battalion still serves in England with complete dedication and honesty. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Such a remarkable history of <b>Gurkhas</b> has been maintained without any interruption as <b>Gurkhas</b> are still recruited in the British Army.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is a first <b>Gurkha</b> VC ever to be sold at auction and it is likely to fetch at leat £110,000. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The 5th <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b> alone won the 9 <a href="/topics/Victoria-Cross" title="Victoria Cross" class=fl>Victoria Crosses</a>, I think. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> 2nd <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b>, 6 <b>Gurkha</b> <b>rifle</b>, 7 <b>Gurkha</b> <b>rifle</b> and 10 <b>Gurkha</b> <b>rifles</b> are under the Britis Government and others are under an Indian government.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Note: <a href="/topics/Colour-%28flag%29" title="Colour %28flag%29" class=fl>Colours</a> were laid up in <a href="/topics/1891" title="1891" class=fl>1891</a> when the regiment became <b>Rifles</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>rifle</b> green; facings: red, perpetuating the regiment's scarlet uniform as 66th BNI. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> R.D.S. Drew-Smythe, 4/1st KGV <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b>, WW2, by David Drew-Smythe</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.regiments.org /regiments/southasia/gurkha/01GR.htm</font> (232 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In the <b>Gurkha</b> War (1814-1816) they waged war with the British East India Company army. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> They served in the battlefields of France in the Loos, Givenchy, <a href="/topics/Battle-of-Neuve-Chapelle" title="Battle of Neuve Chapelle" class=fl>Neuve Chapelle</a> and Ypres; in <a href="/topics/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia" class=fl>Mesopotamia</a>, Persia, Suez Canal and <a href="/topics/Palestine" title="Palestine" class=fl>Palestine</a> against Turkish advance, Gallipoli and Salonika. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> image <b>Gurkha</b> soldiers have won 13 <a href="/topics/Victoria-Cross" title="Victoria Cross" class=fl>Victoria Crosses</a>, all but one (Rambahadur Limbu) were won when all <b>Gurkha</b> regiments were still part of the Indian Army.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Never has the trust that was then placed in the <b>Gurkha</b> soldier ever been in doubt. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Also during the mutiny, 12 Nepalese Army Regiments, a force of 8,000 men under the personal leadership of the Prime Minister of Nepal, took part in the final relief of Lucknow. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The history covering the period during the 2 <a href="/topics/World-War-I" title="World War I" class=fl>World Wars</a> and the subsequent conflicts can be found by going to Brigade of <b>Gurkhas</b> History.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Following the Government's announcement of the plans to restructure the Army, and with the handing back of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China (30th June 1997) necessitating the withdrawal of the military garrison, the size of the Brigade of <b>Gurkhas</b> had to be reduced. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> On <b>1st</b> July 1994 the four <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifle</b> Regiments, 2 GR, 6 GR, 7 GR and 10 GR reformed into a large Regiment, The Royal <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b> (RGR), consisting of three battalions. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Queen's Truncheon awarded to the Sirmoor <b>Rifles</b> in Delhi is in Service with the Regiment, The Drums carry the Battle Honours of the four previous regiments and their property is on permanent loan to the Royal <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Some <b>Gurkha</b> units were also retained in the British Army. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Immediately after independence, tensions between India and Pakistan began to rise quickly, and the first of three full-scale wars between the two nations broke out over the princely state of Kashmir. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> INSAS 5.56 mm assault <b>rifles</b> replacing the FN FAL, 1A1, 1C, AKM and V.58 7.62 mm assault <b>rifles</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> H.D. Hammond RA who died at Nowshera 8th Feby 1898 from a wound received on <b>1st</b> Jany 1898 in the Khyber Pass during the Tirah Campaign when Orderley Officer to Brigadier-General A.G. Hammond by whom this tablet is erected.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He had a dormitory cabin on D Deck and was accompanied by his boxer dog "Bruiser". </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Indian Cavalry' (B.E.F.) (British Expeditionary Force) 'Yi-Hai!' This early 20th Century 'Snaffles' print was Captain Drew-Smythe's particular favourite and both Burma and India remained always dear to him despite the many horrors and sadnesses he encountered. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> He spoke seldom about the War and when he did, it was usually in praise of the <b>Gurkha</b> soldiers and the Burmese natives.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> VCs in the <b>Gurkha</b> Museum, Winchester, by Iain Stewart. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Notes from the historical record of the 2nd Bn, 10th <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> ODTAA : being extracts from the diary of an officer who served with the 4/10th <b>Gurkha</b> <b>Rifles</b> in Manipur and Burma.</td></tr>
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