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*'''1887''' raised as the 2nd Battalion, 3rd (Kumaon) Gurkha Regiment
*'''1891''' became 39th (The Garhwal Rifles) Regiment of Bengal Infantry
*'''1901''' amalgamated with the 49th (Garhwal Rifles) Regiment of Bengal Infantry , which had been raised earlier in 1901, to become 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles
*'''1921''' became 39th Royal Garhwal Rifles
*'''1922''' became 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles
*''Historical Record of the 39th (18th) Royal Garhwal Rifles''.
**''Volume II 1923-1947'' compiled by Sir Ralph B. Deedes. Dehra Dun 1962? (UIN: BLL01012503809)
*''With The the Royal Garhwal Rifles In The in the Great War, From from August 1914 To to November 1917'' by D. H. Drake-Brockman CMG 1933. This book is the memoir of an officer serving with the 2nd Battalion on the western front, in which the regiment was the first regular Indian army force to see service in the trenches, fighting at Aubers RIdge, Festubert and Loos. Available in a reprint edition,<refname=RGR>A reprint edition is available from Naval and Military Press [httphttps://www.naval-military-press.com/product/with-the-royal-garhwal-rifles-in-the-great-war-from-august-1914-to-november-1917.html / ''With The the Royal Garhwal Rifles In The in the Great War, From from August 1914 To to November 1917''] by D. H. Drake-Brockman CMG 1933. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref>which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
*''18th Royal Garhwal Rifles: Register of Casualties, World War II'' by A Nath Himalayan Institute, 1992
== External Links links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_Garhwal_Rifles 39th Garhwal Rifles] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Royal_Garhwal_Rifles 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garhwal_Rifles The Garhwal Rifles] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/39thgarhwalis.htm 39th Garhwal Rifles] britishempire.co.uk
*[http://www.researchingww1.co.uk/39th-garhwal-rifles-1st-battalion 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles] with links to information about the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions. researchingww1.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080723072346/http://uttarakhand.prayaga.org/rifles.html Garhwal Rifles in WWI] uttarakhand.prayaga.org, now an archived webpage<br>
*[http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Forces/1245_Garhwal_Rifles.htm Garhwal Rifles] indiapicks.com
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1922-historical-record-of-the-39th-royal-garhwal-rifles-vol-1-1887-1922-by-evatt-s-pdf/ ''Historical Record of the 39th Royal Garhwal Rifles Volume 1 1887-1922''] by John Thorold Evatt 1923 Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[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.
*''With the Royal Garhwal Rifles in the Great War, from August 1914 to November 1917'' by D. H. Drake-Brockman CMG 1933 is available in a reprint edition,<ref name=RGR/> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsNZoCA6oY online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books/India).
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