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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkha_regiments_(India) Gorkha Regiments (India)] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorkha_regiments_(India) Gorkha Regiments (India)] Wikipedia<br> | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Gorkha_Rifles 5 Gorkha Rifles] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Gorkha_Rifles 5 Gorkha Rifles] Wikipedia | ||
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151030215108/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/military-honours/thamman-gurung.php Thamman Gurung, Rifleman 1st Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles] was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his outstanding courage November 1944 at Monte San Bartolo, north-east Italy. cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024153623 ''Notes on Goorkhas:
being a short account of their country, history, characteristic, clans, &c.'']
by Captain Eden Vansittart, 5th Goorkhas 1890 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024153623 ''Notes on Goorkhas:
being a short account of their country, history, characteristic, clans, &c.'']
by Captain Eden Vansittart, 5th Goorkhas 1890 Archive.org | ||
Revision as of 01:14, 22 October 2016
Refer to general article Gurkha Rifles
The Hazara Gurkha Battalion
Chronology
- 1858 raised as 25th Punjab Infantry or Hazara Gurkha Battalion
- 1861 renamed the 5th Gurhka Regiment
- 1891 became 5th Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment
- 1901 name shortened to 5th Gurkha Rifles
- 1921 became 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles
- 1947 became part of the Indian Army
- 1950 renamed the 5th Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
External Links
- Gorkha Regiments (India) Wikipedia
- 5 Gorkha Rifles Wikipedia
- Thamman Gurung, Rifleman 1st Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his outstanding courage November 1944 at Monte San Bartolo, north-east Italy. cwgc.org, now an archived webpage.
Historical books online
- Notes on Goorkhas: being a short account of their country, history, characteristic, clans, &c. by Captain Eden Vansittart, 5th Goorkhas 1890 Archive.org
- Contents pages from History of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 1858-1928
- The Gurkhas Pdf download, Digital Library of India. A regimental history. This appears to be a reprint edition, for which no author is given, and which advises first published 1960. However the text refers to events in 1964.The most likely publication appears to be The Gurkhas by Harold James and Denis Sheil-Small published 1965, London.