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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Gorkha_Rifles Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Gorkha_Rifles Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha Gurkha] Wikipedia<br /> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha Gurkha] Wikipedia<br /> | ||
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071228105027/http://www.regiments.org/nations/southasia/nepal.htm Nepal including Gurkha Regiments] Regiments.org, an archived website. | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
Revision as of 21:51, 13 October 2012
Gurkha tribesmen began to be recruited into the Bengal Army after the Gurkha War in 1816. They bore many names before becoming Gurkha Rifles. Articles on the regiments can be found as follows:
- 1st Gurkha Rifles
- 2nd Gurkha Rifles
- 3rd Gurkha Rifles
- 4th Gurkha Rifles
- 5th Gurkha Rifles
- 6th Gurkha Rifles
- 7th Gurkha Rifles
- 8th Gurkha Rifles
- 9th Gurkha Rifles
- 10th Gurkha Rifles
The 11th Gurkha Rifles was raised during the 1st World War then disbanded. The 25th, 26th & 29th Gurkha Rifles were raised during the 2nd World War then disbanded.
On the FIBIS website British Indian Army regiments are listed with titles as at the re-organisation of 1895. So 6th, 7th & 8th Gurkha Rifles are in articles titled 42nd, 43rd & 44th Gurkha Rifles. At the Partition of India in 1947 the regiments were given the choice of attachment to the British Army or the Indian Army. The 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th & 10th Regiments chose Britain. The 3rd, 4th, 5th , 8th & 9th Regiments chose India.
External Links
- Gurkha Rifles Wikipedia
- Gurkha Wikipedia
- Nepal including Gurkha Regiments Regiments.org, an archived website.
Historical books online
- Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4th Goorkha Regiment (Shah Shooja's force) in 1841: an episode of the first Afghan War by Colonel Haughton 1879 Archive.org