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	Gurkha - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 60th Rifles (later the Royal Green Jackets) fought alongside the Sirmoor Rifles and were so impressed that following the mutiny they insisted 2nd Gurkhas be awarded the honours of adopting their distinctive rifle green uniforms with scarlet edgings and rifle regiment traditions and that they should hold the title of riflemen rather than sepoys.
		Between 1901 and 1906, the Gurkha regiments were renumbered from the 1st to the 11th and redesignated as Gurkha Rifles.
		The 4th battalion of the 10th Gurkha Rifles became a nucleus for the Chindits.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Gurkhas (2537 words)

	gurkha knife, Gurkha, Brigade of Gurkhas, Britist Gurkha, Gurkha soldier, Who are Gurkhas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Gurkha generally strikes upwards with the kukri, possibly in order to avoid wounding himself should his blow fail, and possibly because an upward cut is just the one that can be least guarded against.
		Gurkhas served as troops of the East India Company in the Pindaree War of 1817, in Bhurtbore in 1826 and the Sikh Wars in 1846 and 1848.
		Gurkhas have had a role in the Falklands War, Gulf War, NATO operations in Kosovo and UN peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and East Timor.
	www.himalayanmart.com /gurkhaknife/gurkhaknife.php (2457 words)

	Enfields_In_Queue:India
		The 4th GR was allocated to India in 1947 and is still a part of the Brigade of the Gurkhas of the Indian Army.
		In 1922 the 57th Rifles was amalgamated and became 4th Battalion (Wilde's), 13th Frontier Force Rifles.
		I believe that it is reasonable to surmise that this rifle was removed from the 1 DM at the time of the 1 DG's departure in order to augment stores for the expeditionary regiments.
	www.enfield-stuff.com /regimentals/rifles/enfield_queue/Queue_India.htm (925 words)

	Gorkha Rifles Regiments
		Recruiting continued, and the adaptability of the Gurkha troops to various types and conditions of combat was demonstrated by their performance in the Second Afghan War (1878-80) and in the Boxer Uprising (1900).
		Gurkhas in the service of India have also played an important and colorful role in national defense, despite the early complaints of Indian nationalists that Nepalese soldiers were acting as British mercenaries or tools of the Ranas.
		Gurkhas, some of whom came from Nepalese families resident in the Indian Tarai, served with distinction in India's three wars with Pakistan (1947-48, 1965, and 1971).
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/rgt-gorkha.htm (2039 words)

	Gorkha Rifles in Ieper - By Mahesh Thapa : home
		Legend had it that Gurkhas never drew their service-issued kukri (curved Nepalese knives) without drawing blood, even if it were their own.
		As the Gorkha kingdom expanded eastward across the Himalayas to Sikkim, the king's warriors, taken from all groups in the area, came to be known as Gurkha soldiers.
		How many soldiers of GR were here was unknown.The record doesn’t show how many members of gorkha rifles were here in ieper, but we can see some of the name who died during that war.
	www.gorkharifles.zoomshare.com (1295 words)

	About the 3rd Gorkha Rifles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The 3 Gorkha Rifles is one of the most celebrated regiments of the Indian Army with an unblemished record of battle honours and courage since its establishment in on April 24, 1815 as a Kumaon Battalion.
		Colonel J.R. Chitnis, CO 1/3 GR, was honoured with the Ashok Chakra posthumously - India's highest peacetime medal for valour - in Nagaland in 1956.
		Nawang belonged to the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles.
	www.nawang.org /3gr.htm (380 words)

	VCs
		Lieutenant Grant, followed by Havildar Karbir Pun, 8th Gurkha Rifles, at once attempted to scale it, but on reaching the top he was wounded and hurled back, as was also the Havildar, who fell down the rock some 30 feet.
		This officer, together with one Gurkha officer and eight men, crossed a river and immediately rushed the enemy's trench under heavy bombing, rifle, machine gun, and artillery fire.
		The great bravery of this Gurkha soldier was instrumental in saving the lives of many of his companions and his outstanding devotion to duty contributed largely to the severe reverse which the enemy eventually suffered when our troops counter-attacked...".
	www.army.mod.uk /brigade_of_gurkhas/hqbg/vcs/index.htm (4437 words)

	4th (Prince of Wales's Own) Gurkha Rifles [India]
		due to a clerical error a 4th Bn, 3rd Gurkha Rifles was raised in the Great War instead of a 3rd Bn, 4th Gurkha Rifles]
		A history of the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, vol.
		Williams, R. Ambush in the Shahur Tangi : the 1st/4th P.W.O. Gurkha Rifles in Waziristan, June to October 1947.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/southasia/gurkha/04GR.htm (258 words)

	Brigade of Gurkhas - China-related Topics BQ-BT - China-Related Topics
		On July 1, 1994 the four rifle regiments were merged into one, the Royal Gurkha Rifles, and the three corps regiments (the Gurkha Military Police having been disbanded in 1965) were reduced to squadron strength.
		Gurkhas have had a role in the Falklands War (1st Battalon of the 7th), Gulf War, NATO operations in Kosovo and UN peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and East Timor.
		Gurkha soldiers have won 13 Victoria Crosses, although all but one (Rambahadur Limbu) were won when all Gurkha regiments were still part of the Indian Army.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Brigade_of_Gurkhas (2009 words)

	Defence Talk Forum - 11 Gurkha Rifles in training (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gurkha (or Gorkha) are a people from Nepal who take their name from the former city-state of Gorkha, which went on to found the Kingdom of Nepal later on.
		Gurkhas served as troops of the East India Company in the Pindaree War of 1817, in Bhurtbore in 1826 and the First and Second Sikh Wars in 1846 and 1848.
		Between 1901 and 1906, the Gurkha regiments were renumbered from the 1st to the 10th and redesignated as Gurkha Rifles.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3169 (1514 words)

	Gurkhas
		The Gurkha is a native of the Kingdom of Nepal, a small mountainous country between India and Tibet, and takes its name from the tribes which formed the army of King Prithwi Narayan, King of Gorkha.
		The Gurkhas are the staunchest of friends to the British serving in the old Indian Army and later the British Army.
		The Gurkhas has a mode of striking which resembles the drawing cut of the broadsword, and which urges the sharp edge through flesh and bone.
	14usaaf27tcs.4mg.com /gurkhas.html (493 words)

	Article - The 11th Gurkha Rifles
		The new regiment, initially designated as the 11th Gurkha Rifles, was to consist of four battalions raised from drafts from those Gurkha battalions already serving in Mesopotamia and Palestine.
		However, the decision went ahead and, in May 1918, ~the 11th Gurkha Rifles was formed.
		On 3 May 1919, troops of the Afghan Army crossed the frontier at the head of the Khyber Pass and occupied the village of Bagh and the springs nearby that provided the water for the garrison of Landi Kotal.
	www.king-emperor.com /article3.htm (1320 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: Gurkhas: 4th Gurkha Rifles
		The 4th Gurkhas were part of the force and heavily involved early on in the campaign.
		By the 20th, it was again in the hands of the ememy and Chamberlain himself led the 4th Gurkhas and 71st Highland Light Infantry in a successful attempt, causing the loss of 27 men and 110 wounded, including Chamberlain himself.
		Due to a clerical error, the 4th Gurkhas did not have a third battalion as 3/4 was written as 4/3 on the order.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/gurkha/4thgurkhas.htm (813 words)

	tribuneindia... Regional Vignettes
		The 14 G.T.C. has also set up a museum housing the memorabilia of the Ist and the 4th Gurkha Rifles which, besides being a show window of the numerous heroic exploits of the Sabathu Gurkhas, has also proved to be a source of inspiration to local youth.
		It was presented to the 4/4 Gurkha Rifles by a Burmese Pagoda priest in Mandalay during the World War II in recognition of their good behaviour while they were stationed in that town.
		The First Battalion of the 4th Gurkha Rifles was assigned to the British Expeditionary Force, that was sent to China to quell the Boxer Rebellion there.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99feb27/saturday/regional.htm (3139 words)

	Defenceindia : Indian Army : The Garhwal Rifles
		In May, 1887, the Ist Battalion of the Regiment was raised at Almora in Kumaon by Lt Col. EP Mainwaring as 2nd Battalion the 3rd (The Kumaon) Gurkha Regiment.
		In 1831, the Battalion was redesignated the 39th (The Garhwali) Regiment of Bengal Infantry.
		In 1901, 2nd Battalion, the 39th Garhwal Rifles was raised.
	www.defenceindia.com /defenceind/garhwal_rifles.html (541 words)

	Garhwal Rifles
		Soldiers recruited into the Garhwal Rifles are from the Garhwal Hills, one of the most beautiful areas of the Himalayas and are known for their hardiness, simplicity and upright manner.
		The overall performance of 18th Battalion, The Garhwal Rifles [along with 13th Battalion, The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles] was exceptional and marked with exemplary valour and grit in the face of the enemy.
		The 12th Reunion of the Garhwal Rifles was organized at its Regimental Centre in Lansdowne in June 2004.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/rgt-garhwal.htm (2176 words)

	British Gurkha Rifles
		The first battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles who fought in the Falklands are part of the British Brigade of Gurkhas who form a historic link with the old Indian Army.
		The 7th Gurkhas were founded at Quetta in NW India in 1907, recruited from the 'jats' or clans of eastern Nepal, and in 1908 a second battalion was raised.
		For ten years from 1948 the Brigade was in Malaya, and in the 1950's raised the Gurkha Army Service Corps, later Gurkha signal, engineer and transport units.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/7859/BritArmyGurkhas.htm (631 words)

	Gurkhas : Nepali Warriors - Himalayan Imports / BirGorkha Khukuri (Nepal)
		There were always plenty of candidates for commissions in the Gurkha regiments, I guess because of their reputation for good discipline, loyalty and fighting skills, and probably because they were usually in the Far East, and this meant that regiments could be `picky'.
		Gurkhas are employed as an integral part of the British Army and plays a full part in its operational commitments.
		Gurkha graves are spread across the face of the earth in nearly every country in which Britain has fought - silent testament to Gurkha Loyalty and Courage.
	www.himalayan-imports.com /gurkha.html (4966 words)

	1/9 Gurkha Rifles • Monte Cassino
		It was here that the 1/9th [1st Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles] endured a martyrdom, clinging for sixteen days [starting 17 March] to a position known as Hangman's Hill [Point 435] in the shadow of the monastery.
		The Gurkhas' opponents were the German 1st Parachute Division, which had been described as 'one of the greatest fighting formations ever to take the field'.
		The Gurkhas were taking daily losses, they were on short rations, and it was obvious that they could not advance.
	www.milhist.net /mto/19gurkha.html (467 words)

	History News Network
		His writing is suffused with nostalgia for the regiment in which he served in the 1930s, the Prince of Wales' Own 4th Gurkha Rifles.
		The British Empire is long gone, but the Gurkhas remain in British service — and in the service of such erstwhile British colonies as India and Singapore.
		The Gurkhas' glittering record is worth mentioning because we are in the midst of a heated debate over immigration.
	hnn.us /roundup/entries/23914.html (668 words)

	Avalanche Press
		But their Subhedar (Gurkha leader) makes his morale check, and the HMG that took a step loss is only disrupted.
		The Gurkhas who just destroyed the Italian HMG in the promontory hex turn right and assault the tank next door that blew up a Bren just before it could go in with the Gurkhas and assault the armored car.
		The “Gurkhas of Death” pile into the maggiore’s hex, but the maggiore, imbued with the true fighting spirit of Italia, kills the Gurkha captain and disrupts or demoralizes all the Gurkha units (the sergente drinks a toast to him from afar.
	www.avalanchepress.com /DesertRatsTactics.php?mode=print (4003 words)

	Forgotten campaign, forgotten veterans
		On January 1st, 1944, he was attached as reinforcement to the 114th Indian Infantry Brigade in the Arakan and posted to D Company, 4/5th Gurkha Rifles, as a Second Lieutenant.
		The loud clatter and confusion of rifle and sub-machine guns firing went on for several minutes before both patrols hastily withdrew into the jungle – as he remembers, there were no likely casualties in the skirmish.
		Once his brief tour with the Gurkhas was over, he was posted to another unit on the Burma front for an even shorter tour as a 2nd Lieutenant in the all British composed, 1st Somerset Light Infantry, better known as the ‘SomLI’.
	www.sundaytimes.lk /061105/Plus/pls1.html (2443 words)

	The Gurkha Museum commemorates the services of the Gurkhas to the British since 1815 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The publication aims to record, and illustrate where possible, every piece of insignia worn, from the raising of the Regiment in 1857 to 1947.
		The publication aims to record, and illustrate where possible, every piece of insignia worn, from the raising of the Regiment in 1817 to 1994.
		The publication aims to record, and illustrate where possible, every piece of insignia worn, from the raising of the Regiment in 1824 to 1947.
	www.thegurkhamuseum.co.uk /products1.cfm?CategoryID=26762 (217 words)

	The Rifles
		Despite the preference of some for Colours we agreed that to be consistent with Rifle history we should not have Colours.
		The Rifles will be relevant to the future and proud of its rich history.
		There are no changes to the names of Regiments of Foot Guards, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, The Royal Irish Regiment, The Parachute Regiment, The Royal Gurkha Rifles and The London Regiment.
	www.army.mod.uk /lightinfantry/the_rifles (712 words)

	Burma & The Chindits
		Bat Burma Rifles and other ancillary troops, such as signals, medics and a compliment of RAF personnel.
		Out of the original 3000 only some 2000 returned, 450 had been killed, 120 Burma Rifles permitted to shed uniforms and allowed to return to their villages and the remainder taken prisoner of war with few surviving that ordeal.
		Gurkha Rifles (36and63) 1st Bn The Cameronians (26 and 90)
	www.peter.gerrard.clara.net /burma001.htm (7452 words)

	Lancashire Fusiliers Photographs 1st Bn WW2
		Columns 36, 63 3rd Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles
		Columns 57, 93 3rd Battalion 9th Gurkha Rifles, to 111 Brigade in May 1944
		Columns 49, 94 4th Battalion 9th Gurkha Rifles
	www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk /gallerynew/WW2/1stBn/chindits.htm (1830 words)

	Gurkha Rifles
		The Gurkha Rifles, 5th Gurkha Rifles at Peiwar Kotol, 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles and 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles shown in battle scene military prints and military uniform prints by Douglas Anderson.
		The painting shows the 5th Gurkha's advancing uphill in the Kurrum Valley against large odds during their advance to Kabul.
		The painting depicts the custodian of the Queen's keys, the chief Yeoman Warder being challenged by the sentry on duty who at the time of the painting was a member of the Gurkha Regiment.
	www.regimental-art.com /new_page_4.htm (669 words)

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