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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_King_Edward_VII's_Own_Gurkha_Rifles_(The_Sirmoor_Rifles) Sirmoor Rifles] Wikipedia
*[http://www.army.mod.uk/news/28567.aspx 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 topic "3/2 Gurkhas in the Arakan" <ref>WW2Talk thread bamboo43 et al. [http://ww2talk.com/forumsindex.php?threads/topic/273673-322-gurkhas-in-the-arakan.27367/ 3/2 Gurkhas in the Arakan]''WW2Talk Forum'' 21 January 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2018.</ref>[in WW2].
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80012137 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
===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], published 1924. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Volume II is also available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsXTJ-PEPl online on fold 3] (Ancestry owned pay website) in a Naval & Military Press reprint edition, located in World War II/Military Books/India (where possibly images and maps may be clearer).
:Volume III, by G R Stevens, is for the period 1921-1948, and is available at the British Library, part of UIN: BLL01013084299, which advises there is also a Volume IV, 1948-2003.
*[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.
