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*WW2Talk thread [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/47412-1st-gurkha-rifles 1st Gurkha RiflesWW2 Talk portal], mainly about the 3rd Battalion.*''The Telegraph'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042623/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)dated 11 October 2007, now archived. 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.*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200507012612/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10380829/Major-Rex-Carr.html Obituary: Major Rex Carr] (1922-2013) 15 October 2013 ''The Telegraph'', now archived. In 1944 he joined the 4th Battalion 1st King George V’s 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.{{*Two articles [http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=490750 Partition, and Last Days of the Raj] by Duncan Allan. Scroll down to the first article dated May 1, 2014. Scroll further down to the 2nd article 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.*[https://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99feb20/saturday/regional.htm#widget:Google PlusOne2 "Museum that showcases heroic deeds of Gurkhas"] by R D [probably Romesh Dutt] ''The Tribune'' Saturday, February 20, 1999. The Museum is located at [[Subathu]] and contains memorabilia of the Ist and the 4th Gurkha Rifles.  |size=small==Historical books online===|count*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011956888?urlappend=%3Bseq=true11 ''The 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles, the Malaun Regiment, 1815-1921''] by F. Loraine Petre 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/1st-gurkharifles/page/n11/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1956-history-of-the-1st-king-george-vs-own-gurkha-rifles-vol-2-1920-1947-by-bellers-s-pdf/ ''The History of the 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles, the Malaun Regiment. Volume II: 1920-1947''] by Brigadier E. V. R. Bellers. 1956. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.*[https://archive.org/details/ibexofshapingoth00rundrich ''The Ibex of Sha-ping, and Other Himalayan Studies''] by Lieut. L B Rundall 1st Gurkha Rifles (Killed in Action Dec. 19, 1914) 1915 Archive.org. With illustrations by the author.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72740 ''The Gurkhas''] 1928 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Gurkhas: their Manners, Customs and Country'' by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles and Captain C J Morris 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. Also available as a download from [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1928-the-gurkhas-their-manners-customs-and-country-by-northey-s-pdf/ PAHAR] Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22833 ''The Land Of The Gurkhas Or The Himalayan Kingdom Of Nepal''] by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles. Reprint edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. The author held the post of Recruiting Officer for five years, during which he was permitted to visit the interiors of Nepal that were out of bounds to other Europeans. Also available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-land-of-the-gurkhas-or-himalayan-kingdom-of-nepal-by-northey-s-pdf/ download as a pdf] from PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. * ''The Gurkhas'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 Archive.org version], mirror from 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 final chapter refers to events in 1964. The most likely publication appears to be ''The Gurkhas'' by Harold James and Denis Sheil-Small published 1965, London.:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1965-the-gurkhas-by-james-s-pdf/ ''The Gurkhas''] by James, 1965. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.}}