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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116021153/http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=490750 Last Days of the Raj] by Duncan Allan. Scroll down to the post dated September 17 2012. The author was in the 2/1st Gurkha Rifles at the time of Partition and witnessed many dead bodies. Prior to this the regiment was part of the North West Frontier Reserve Brigade. He also mentions the regimental pipe band which played at weddings in [[Peshawar]]. Koi-Hai website.
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*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TCvyed3WstwC&pg=PA6&dq=Early+Years&as_brr=3&ei=yITXSbzaEp3CMrS2zfwC#PPA7,M1 The Gurkha Rifles] from The Gurkha Rifles by J B R Nicholson & Michael Rolfe<br>
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/gurkha/1stgurkhas.htm 1st Gurkha Rifles] British Empire Website<br>
*WW2Talk thread [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/47412-1st-gurkha-rifles 1st Gurkha RiflesWW2 Talk portal], mainly about the 3rd Battalion.
*''The Telegraph'' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/gurkha-obituaries/1565768/Major-General-Derek-Horsford.html Obituary of Major-General Derek Horsford] (1917-2007). He was commissioned into the 8th Gurkha Rifles and joined the 1st Battalion at Quetta in 1938, and was promoted to command the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles in 1944 at Kohima in the Burma campaign.
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10380829/Major-Rex-Carr.html Obituary: Major Rex Carr] (1922-2013) 15 October 2013 ''The Telegraph''. In 1944 he joined the 4th Battalion 1st King George Vās Own Gurkha Rifles (4/1 GR) and took part in the Battle of Kohima as a company commander. After Indian Independence he joined the 2nd Battalion [[7th Gurkha Rifles]] (2/7 GR) and accompanied the battalion to Malaya. He was subsequently awarded two Military Crosses for operations in the Malayan jungle.
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