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* '''Regt Centres'''- 1st Battn = Maymyo. 2nd Battn = Almora <ref> Indian Army List, January 1920 </ref>
* '''Uniform''' - Dark Green with Black Facings. <ref> [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mando_gal/4102722878/ Likeness of uniform] flickr.com – 10th Gurkha Rifles </ref>
 
==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 ==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071025082501/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/gurkha/10GR.htm 10th Gurkha Rifles] www.regiments.org<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Princess_Mary%27s_Own_Gurkha_Rifles 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Gurkha_Rifles Royal Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia<br>*[http://www.10gr.com/html/History.htm 10th (Princess Mary's Own)Ghurka Rifles] Comprehensive history published by the 10GR Regimental Trust <br>*WW1 National Archives War Diary catalogue references, collaborativecollections.org:**[http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/1st_Battalion_10th_Gurkha_Rifles,_Indian 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles] Theatres of War: Mesopotamia and North Persia**[http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/2nd_Battalion_10th_Gurkha_Rifles,_Indian 2nd Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles] Theatres of War: Egypt, Palestine and Syria; Gallipoli; Mesopotamia and North Persia; India and East Persia***For Gallipoli, the [http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/29th_Indian_Infantry_Brigade 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 [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Catalogued as Gurkhas (1915): [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/237136 Pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237136 Archive.org version]*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126645 ''The Gurkhas''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 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.
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