42nd Gurkha Rifles

6th Gurkha Rifles

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Chronology

• 1817 raised as the Cuttack Legion
• 1823 renamed Rangpur Light Infantry
• 1826 became the 8th Local Light Infantry
• 1844 became the 1st Assam Light Infantry
• 1861 renamed the 42nd Bengal Native Infantry
• 1864 renamed the 42nd (Assam) Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
• 1885 became the 42nd (Assam) Bengal (Light) Infantry
• 1886 became the 42nd Regiment of Goorkha Light Infantry
• 1891 became the 42nd Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry
• 1901 became the 42nd Gurkha Rifles
• 1903 became the 6th Gurkha Rifles
• 1947 allocated to Britain on Partition
• 1958 became the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 1994 amalgamated with the 1st Battalion, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) to form the 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles.[

External Links

• The Regiment: 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles (retrieved 3 May 2014)
• The Gurkha Rifles from The Gurkha Rifles by J B R Nicholson & Michael Rolfe
  
• 6th Gurkha Rifles British Empire Website
  
• 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles Wikipedia
• Capt George Theodore Gill and 2/6th Gurkha Rifles on the North West Frontier 1915 from David Gill’s gillww1
• Capt George Theodore Gill and 2/6th Gurkha Rifles in Mesopotamia 1916 from David Gill’s gillww1
• "Joanna's dad and a very British hero called Pun: Why Major Lumley would be 'overwhelmed with shame' at the British Government's treatment of the Gurkhas" by Geoffrey Wansell 18 September 2008 dailymail.co.uk (retrieved 3 May 2014.) Includes details of the the battle for Mogaung in northern Burma in June 1944 (3rd Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles). Two Victoria Crosses were awarded as a result, to Capt. Michael Allmand, who was killed and to Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun.
• WW2Talk thread about the 6th Gurkha Rifles in Burma during WW2