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	7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles [India - UK]
		allocated to United Kingdom at independence of India, less 3rd Bn transferred to 5th Gurkha Rifles in Indian Army (as its 6th Bn), and some personnel to form 11th Gurkha Rifles in Indian Army
		VCs in the Gurkha Museum, Winchester, by Iain Stewart.
		The autumn years : 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, vol.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/southasia/gurkha/07GR.htm (302 words)

	Gurkha - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1788 and 1791, Nepal Gurkha invaded Tibet and robbed Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse.
		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.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gorkha (2804 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> fr:Gurkha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gurkhas are best known for their history of bravery and strength in the British Army Brigade of Gurkhas and the Indian Army.
		It is a misconception that the Gurkhas took their name from the Gorkha region of Nepal.
		In 1999 5/8 Gorkha Rifles were sent as part of the Indian Army UN contingent of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) to secure the diamond fields against the Revolutionary United Front.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/fr:Gurkha (2917 words)

	Welcome to This Is Folkestone Kent .. people, places, and events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At present the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, and The Band of The Brigade of Gurkhas are posted in Sir John Moore Barracks in Folkestone.
		Between 1901 and 1906 Gurkha regiments were renumbered from the 1st to the 10th and redesignated as Gurkha Rifles.
		After the partition of India of 1947 it was decided that six regiments of Gurkha Rifles would remain in the Indian Army, while the remainder (2 GR, 6 GR, 7 GR and 10 GR) were established an an integral part of the British Army to become the modern Brigade of Gurkhas.
	www.thisisfolkestone.co.uk /military.htm (724 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Major-General Jim Robertson
		Major-General Jim Robertson, who has died aged 93, commanded the 1/7th Gurkha Rifles in Burma and the 1/6th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya; a formidable field commander, he was awarded two DSOs and was four times mentioned in dispatches.
		It was the beginning of the 12-year Emergency, in which the Gurkhas played a key role in operations against the Communist terrorists, and he was mentioned in dispatches.
		He was chairman of the Gurkha Brigade Association from 1968 to 1980, and president from 1980 to 1987.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/17/db1701.xml (937 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)

	Ganju Lama: obituaries
		Ganju Lama was born in India at Sangmo, southern Sikkim, on July 22 1924 and, although neither an ethnic Gurkha nor a Nepalese subject, he enlisted in the 7th Gurkhas in 1942.
		After Indian Independence in 1947, Ganju Lama joined the 11th Gorkha (as it is spelt in the Indian army) Rifles, a regiment formed from Gurkhas of the 7th and 10th Gurkha Rifles who had decided to continue their services in India instead of joining the British Army.
		The enemy was known to be wellentrenched, but B Company of 1st/7th Gurkhas, in the lead on the left of the road, was suddenly held down by fire from the 37mm guns of Japanese light tanks, which had apparently appeared from nowhere.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/538125/posts?page=3 (1992 words)

	GANJU LAMA VC
		Ganju Lama was born on 7th July 1922 in the village of Sangmo in Sikkim of a Tibetan father, who was a mandal (village headman) and a Nepalese mother (who died when he was two).
		He was admitted into the Gurkhas at the age of 18 only because in wartime the regiment let slip its usually stringent ethnic criterion.
		The regiment had been re-raised from the soldiers of the 7th and 10th Gurkha Rifles who opted to continue their service with the Indian Army, rather than join the British Army.
	www.victoriacross.org.uk /bblama.htm (569 words)

	The British Gurkha Welfare Society: :
		Gurkha troops (1st Battalion, 2nd KEO Gurkha Rifles) were the first to be used again in an operational role at the outbreak of the Brunei Revolt in December 1962.
		This was achieved by a reduction of the number of Gurkha infantry battalions from eight to five, reductions in the strength of the three corps units (Engineers, Signals and Transport) and the disbandment of the Gurkha Parachute Company and the Gurkha Military Police.
		The 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles were at the forefront of the NATO Peace Support Operations in Kosovo in 1999, whilst in the same year, the 2nd Battalion played a key role in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in East Timor.
	www.bgws.info /history.asp (1064 words)

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		The 7th Rifles were recently hired by the late Sultan of Brunei to guard the famed Seria oilfields.
		GURKHAS DELAYED, OIL FIELDS UNATTENDED The 14th Gurkha Rifles, scheduled to fly in to Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei several days ago to guard the hotly contested oil fields in Seria, still have not arrived.
		They're called Gurkhas, and they are paid handsomely for their ferocious fighting ability, even though, by and large, they are not extremely well equipped.
	www.tacopshq.com /MBX/Brunei/news.txt (3196 words)

	The Hindu : Warriors in a Himalayan kingdom
		The Gurkhas are hardy fighters, one of the best in hand to hand combat; their khukri, a curved flash of steel, the deadliest of weapons in any ugly situation.
		There are innumerable anecdotes depicting the Gurkha reaction to situations, all of them eulogistic, every one of them necessarily lifted from the war front.
		The author's own admiration for the Gurkhas is all too obvious but he has at the same time remained true to his role of a narrator and brought out some very interesting facts about the history of Nepal with special emphasis on its geo-political location.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/01/02/stories/1302017k.htm (1175 words)

	11th Gorkha Rifles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 11th Gurkhas was originally founded in 1918 through the amalgamation together of companies of the other Gurkha regiments and the Garhwal Rifles.
		Following India's independence in 1947, the Gurkha regiments of the British Indian Army were divided between the new Indian Army and the British Army.
		In the event, large numbers of men from the 7th Gurkha Rifles and the 10th Gurkha Rifles, which recruited predominantly from Eastern Nepal, decided not to join their regiments as part of the British Army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/11th_Gorkha_Rifles (305 words)

	Press Releases - Media and Public Relations Office - The University of Nottingham
		The colloquium has been organised by Catherine Davies, Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, and Director of the AHRC project, and Bernard McGuirk, Professor of Hispanic and Latin American Studies, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at The University of Nottingham.
		“The contribution of former Gurkha officer Mike Seear in bringing the military from Argentina and the UK together has been invaluable.
		The event has attracted considerable international interest and involves delegates from 20 countries, not least because of the ever resonant impact of the Thatcher years, still indelibly associated with the Falklands factor and, in Argentina, of the loss of a war but the gain of democratic government.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /public-affairs/press-releases/index.phtml?menu=pressreleases&code=THE-192/06&create_date=15-nov-2006 (542 words)

	Falkland Islands Info Portal - History Articles
		This unit is permanently based in Buenos Aires and its history includes a successful defence of the capital in 1806 against ten thousand British redcoats commanded by Lieutenant-General Whitelocke who had landed at Montevideo, crossed the River Plate and advanced on the town with the intention of seizing it as a trading base.
		Ironically the Gurkha motto 'It is better to die than to be a coward' has a strikingly similar sentiment to the Argentine Marines' 'Pugnams Pereror Per Patriam' (Fighting I Die For The Fatherland).
		It was published in the Penguin News in four instalments on 6, 13, 20 and 27 August 2004 and is reproduced with the kind permission of the Editor.
	www.falklands.info /history/hist82article16.html (4288 words)

	Victoria Crosses have been won by Gurkha Regiments
		When these arrived some hours later they too became casualties, but the subadar, undeterred, retrieved the ammunition himself and took the offensive with grenades and kukris, until he was killed.
		On 18 and 19 September 1944 at San Marino, Italy, when a company of the 9th Gurkha Rifles encountered bitter opposition from a German prepared position, Rifleman Sher Bahadur Thapa and his section commander, who was afterwards badly wounded, charged and silenced an enemy machine-gun.
		The rifleman then went on alone to the exposed part of a ridge where, ignoring a hail of bullets, he silenced more machine-guns, covered a withdrawal and rescued two wounded men before he was killed.
	www.nepalesekhukuri.com /vcs.html (1754 words)

	VC, Gurkha, Gurkhas, Ghurka, Gerka, Victoria Cross, Gurka Army all here
		This Gurkha Officer continued to fight his way up the narrow bullet-swept approaches to the crest.
		Spurred on by the irresistible will of their leader to win, the platoon stormed and carried the hill by a magnificent all out effort and inflicted very heavy casualties on the Japanese.
		Wave after wave of fanatical attacks were thrown in by the enemy during the next four hours and all were repulsed with heavy casualties...
	www.thekhukurihouse.com /Content/VCHolders.php (1587 words)

	Gurkha Rifles Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GURKHA ARMY CAP BADGE 7 GURKHA RIFLES JR GAUNT
		Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles BURMA INDIA
		A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: A Bur...
	jakeedwin.com /gurkha-rifles.html (222 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)

	eBay - 7th gurkha rifles, Militaria, Collectibles items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		7th Duke of Edinburghs Gurkha Rifle Staybrite Cap Badge
		7th DEO Gurkha Rifles Officers Beret Badge-Non Voided
		Military 7th Duke of Edinburgh' Own Gurkha Rifles print
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=7th+gurkha+rifles&... (284 words)

	GORKHA BOOKS - B. Slade
		Gurkha: the illustrated history of an elite fighting force - Christopher Chant.
		[History of the four Gurkha regiments retained by the UK after the Partition (2nd King Edward VII's Own Goorkha Rifles, 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles).
		[Proceeds benefiting the Gurkha Welfare Trusts--the memoirs of 'Portland' (Morland-Hughes) of the 5th Gurkha Rifles, who was killed in action in Italy in 1944.
	www.jnanam.net /shastra/gurkbook.html (581 words)

	Ganju Lama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although neither an ethnic Gurkha nor a Nepalese subject, he enlisted in 1942.
		His real name was Gyantso, but a clerk in the recruiting office wrote it down as Ganju, and the name stuck.
		He was 21 years old, and a Rifleman in the 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ganju_Lama (468 words)

	The Caledonian Society of Norway - The Cally!
		Gurkha Rifles as a seconded Light Infantry officer, I attended my first 7th Gurkha Rifles Regimental Association Reunion at Netheravon on Saturday, 13 September 2003.
		It was an enjoyable event as well as an opportunity to sell a few copies of my book With the Gurkhas in the Falklands – A War Journal published by Pen and Sword Books two months before.
		An accumulated period of eight years to write, research, re-write, make two fact-finding trips to Argentina in 2002, re-write yet again (twelve drafts in all) and endure an exhausting editorial process was needed before I could claim to be an author.
	www.cally.org /2005-2006season.htm (1451 words)

	Q&C MILITARIA
		Joined 1st Bn 7th Gurkha Rifles 10 Dec. 1902.
		Commissioned Jemedar with 4th Bn 11th Gurkha Rifles 12 Sept. 1918.
		The 4th/11th were raised in Palestine 24 May 1918 and disbanded in the 1920's.
	www.qcmilitaria.com /medind2htm.htm (101 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments & National Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		allocated to United Kingdom at independence of India, less 4th Bn transferred to 8th Gurkha Rifles in Indian Army
		1994.07.01 amalgamated with, 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles, and 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles, to form The Royal Gurkha Rifles
		Vc's in The Gurkha Museum - by Iain Stewart
	www.britisharmedforces.org /i_regiments/roygurk_index.htm (421 words)

	Granta: Tony Gould
		Tony Gould served in the 7th Gurkha Rifles in Malaya, India and Hong Kong.
		Invalided out of the army with polio, he read English at Cambridge, and then went on to work as a radio producer for the BBC and as literary editor of the New Statesman and Society.
		His books include Death in Chile: A Memoir and a Journey, Inside Outsider: the Life and Times of Colin MacInnes and, most recently, A Summer Plague: Polio and its Survivors.
	www.granta.com /authors/16 (79 words)

	The Victoria Cross (in India, 1912-47)
		Jemadar Mir Dost, I.O.M., Bahadur, 55th Coke's Rifles - 26 April 1915 - Ypres, France
		IO-7055 Subedar Richpal Ram, 4/6th Rajputana Rifles - 7-11 February 1941 - Keren, Eritrea, Ethiopia (posthumous)
		IO-49170 Jemedar Prakash Singh, 13th Frontier Force Rifles - 17 February 1945 - Kalan Ywathit, Burma (posthumous)
	faculty.winthrop.edu /haynese/india/medals/VC/IndVC.html (1315 words)

	Special Forces Newsletter
		I also found that this applies to every facet of life and realized there is no freedom without responsibility and now through the above mentioned and other voluminous match sticks of experience of I have come to know responsibility is a another word for freedom.
		He commanded a rifle company in the 1st Battalion of the 7th Gurkha Rifles during the Malayan Emergency and the Border Scouts in Borneo, directed the British Army Jungle Warfare School and recruited Gurkhas for the British Army in Nepal.
		S.O. Tech developed the internal magazine slot system (patent pending) to drop the six rifle magazines into the flat panel that makes up the body of the Falcon.
	specialforces.com /newsletter/2006_05 (2625 words)

	Gurkha Rifles
		Gurkha Regiments of the British Army by Douglas Anderson showing the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles and the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles.
		7th Duke of Edinburghs Own Gurkha Rifles by D Anderson
		10th Princess Marys Own Gurkha Rifles by D Anderson
	www.military-uniforms.com /gurkha_rifles.htm (504 words)

	British Army Regimental badges for sale: We have in stock most British Army Regimental badges for sale,we can supply ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		[354] The 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
		The 6th QEO Gurkha Rifles wear the Eagle badge of the 14th/20th Hussars on their upper sleeeve, in commeration of the bond forged between the two Regiments in the Italian campaign of WWII.
		The 7th DEO Gurkha Rifles last Battle honour was The Falkland Islands 1982.
	www.egframes.co.uk /aagurkha12.htm (111 words)

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