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2nd Gurkha Rifles

Refer to general article Gurkha Rifles
Also known as The Sirmoor Rifles or Sirmur Rifles

1815 raised as Sirmoor Battalion by Lieutenant Frederick Young
1823 became 8th (Sirmoor) Local Battalion
1826 became 6th (Sirmoor) Battalion
1850 became Sirmoor Battalion
1858 became Sirmoor Rifle Regiment
1861 became 17th Bengal Native Infantry
1864 became 2nd Gurkha (Sirmoor Rifles) Regiment
1876 became 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) Gurkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles)
1901 became 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Regiment)
1936 became King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles
1947 on Partition allocated to India

2nd Gurkha Rifles British Empire website
Sirmoor Rifles Wikipedia
Gurkha awarded MBE 70 years late 13 May 2016 army.mod.uk. Subedar Major Kalu Chettri, MC MBE, 2nd KEO Gurkha Rifles. Contains links to full details of the Military Cross and MBE Citations, and provides regimental details from 1917.
WW2Talk thread 3/2 Gurkhas in the Arakan^[1]
Listen to the 1992 interview with Harold Douglas James British officer served with 3/2nd Bn Gurkha Rifles with 3 Column 77 Bde during First Chindit Expedition in Burma, 1943 Imperial War Museums

History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) by Colonel L W Shakespear 2nd KEO Goorkha Rifles. Volume I from 1815 published 1912. Volume II 1911-1921. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Volume III is for the period 1921-1948.
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.

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 ===Historical books online===
 *''History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)'' by Colonel L W	Shakespear 2nd KEO Goorkha Rifles. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012317171?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] from 1815 published 1912. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4522146?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II 1911-1921]. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Volume III is for the period 1921-1948.
-*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/126645 ''The Gurkhas'']  Pdf download, 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 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.
+*[http://www.new.dli.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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