1st Gurkha Rifles

Refer to general article Gurkha Rifles
Also known as The Malaun Regiment

Chronology

1815 raised as 1st Nasiri Battalion
1824 renamed 5th Local Battalion
1826 merged with 6th Local Battalion to become 4th Local Battalion
1849 66th Bengal Native Infantry mutinied and was disbanded
1850 took the title 66th (Goorkha Regiment) Bengal Native Infantry
1861 renamed the 1st Goorkha Regiment
1886 became the 1st Goorkha Light Infantry
1891 became the 1st Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment
1901 became the 1st Gurkha Rifles
1903 renamed the 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1906 renamed the 1st Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1910 renamed the 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1937 became the 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1947 allocated to India on Partition
1950 became 1 Gorkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)

Gorkha Regiments (India) Wikipedia
1st Gurkha Rifles Wikipedia
1st Gorkha Rifles from The Gurkhas by Mike Chappel & Martin Windrow
The Gurkha Rifles from The Gurkha Rifles by J B R Nicholson & Michael Rolfe
1st Gurkha Rifles British Empire Website
The Telegraph 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.