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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151121035545/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/military-honours/gabar-singh-negi.php Gabar Singh Negi] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. Gabar Singh Negi was a Rifleman in the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles when he was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 10th March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, France. His bravery led to his death.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/527922.html "Kurdistan 1919: Military Operations in Mesopotamian Kurdistan: South Kurdistan, May–June 1919"] by Harry Fecitt. From Harry's Sideshows kaiserscross.com
*''John Eric Colenso: British Officer in the Gurkha Rifles'' by Ann Collins 24th August 2014 [httphttps://docsweb.googlearchive.comorg/web/20150304120617/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colensostudy.id.au%2FJohn%20Eric%20Colenso%20-%20a%20british%20gurkha%2003.pdf html version], [http://www.colensostudy.id.au/John%20Eric%20Colenso%20-%20a%20british%20gurkha%20032002.pdf pdf''John Eric Colenso: British Officer in the Gurkha Rifles'']by Ann Collins 24th August 2014. now an archived webpage. colensostudy.id.au. He was appointed to the 2/7th Gurkha Rifles in 1907 and seconded to the Burma Military Police (BMP) in1909. During WW1 was with the 2/7th Gurkha Rifles in Egypt and then on the Western Front with the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles, and then with the 2nd/2nd Gurkhas. Back in India, he took part in the 3rd Afghan War with the 2/7th Gurkhas and was then with the BMP 1919- c 1922, when he was transferred to the 3rd Gurkha Rifles and took part in the actions in Waziristan 1922-1923. He retired in 1932.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/acrossroofofworl00etherich ''Across the roof of the world; a record of sport and travel through Kashmir, Gilgit, Hunza, the Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia''] by Lieut P T Etherton, 39th Garhwal Rifles (Indian Army). 1911 Archive.org. The author set out from the regiment at [[Lansdowne]], and his servants included a Rifleman from the regiment, who accompanied him on the entire trip.
