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9th Gurkha Rifles

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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Gorkha_Rifles 9 Gorkha Rifles] Wikipedia
*Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=200250&hl= thread] about Lieutenant Richard Crawhall Walton 1st Bn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, killed in action near La Bassée, France on the 7th November, 1914, and buried near Neuve Chapelle. (Includes an obituary in the form of a pdf only available to [[Mailing lists#Military| logged in members ]] of the GWF)
*[http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/major-george-campbell-wheeler Soldiers' Stories: Major George Campbell Wheeler] 9th Gurkha Rifles, won the Victoria Cross while crossing the River Tigris during the Second Battle of Kut on 23 February 1917. nam.ac.uk.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now an archived web page. Includes brief mention of 9/Gurkhas.
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80017777 1998 interview with Percival Scott Leathart], British officer served with 3/9th Gurkha Rifles in Waziristan, India, Arakan, Burma, during Second Chindit Expedition in Burma and in Java, 1941-1946. Imperial War Museums.
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