10th Gurkha Rifles

Refer to general article Gurkha Rifles

Chronology

• 1890 Raised by Lt Col C R Macgregor as 1st Regiment of Burma Infantry by amalgamation of 10th Madras Infantry and The Kubo Valley Military Police Battalion
• 1890 became the 10th (Burma) Regiment of Madras Infantry
• 1891 became the 10th Regiment (1st Burma Battalion) of Madras Infantry
• 1892 became the 10th Regiment (1st Burma Rifles) of Madras Infantry
• 1895 became the 10th Regiment (1st Burma Gurkha Rifles) of Madras Infantry
• 1901 became the 10th Gurkha Rifles
• 1908 2nd Battalion raised by Lt Col G H C Colomb from a wing of the 1st Battalion.
• 1947 allocated to Britain on Partition
• 1948 became the 10th Gurkha Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment
• 1949 became the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
• 1990 united with 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, and 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles, to form 3rd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles

Details

• Regt Centres- 1st Battn = Maymyo. 2nd Battn = Almora
• Uniform - Dark Green with Black Facings.

First World War

Regimental War Diaries are available from the National Archives, Kew, England. Note that many of these are hand written, however transcribed editions are available for Gallipoli, for the 10th Gurkha Rifles and for the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, of which the 10th Gurkha Rifles was a part, edited by Martin Gillott. publisher Great War Diaries, in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available, you don't need Kindle).

For National Archives references, and Theatres of War, refer External Links below.

External links

• 10th Gurkha Rifles www.regiments.org
  
• 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles Wikipedia
  
• Royal Gurkha Rifles Wikipedia
  
• 10th (Princess Mary's Own)Ghurka Rifles Comprehensive history published by the 10GR Regimental Trust
  
• WW1 National Archives War Diary catalogue references, collaborativecollections.org:
  • 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles Theatres of War: Mesopotamia and North Persia
  • 2nd Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles Theatres of War: Egypt, Palestine and Syria; Gallipoli; Mesopotamia and North Persia; India and East Persia
    • For Gallipoli, the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade War Diary is also very relevant.

Historical books online

• Handbooks for the Indian Army: Gurkhas. Compiled under the orders of the Government by Lieut- Colonel Eden Vansittart 2nd Bn 10th Gurkha Rifles. revised by Major B U Nicolay 1st Bn, 4th Gurkha Rifles 1915 (Reprint 1918), is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Catalogued as Gurkhas (1915): Pdf download, Archive.org version
• The Gurkhas Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. 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.