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42nd Gurkha Rifles

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**[http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/3rd_Battalion_6th_Gurkha_Rifles,_Indian 3rd Battalion 6th Gurkha Rifles] No diaries
*[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1057401/Joannas-dad-British-hero-called-Pun-Why-Major-Lumley-overwhelmed-shame-British-Governments-treatment-Gurkhas.html "Joanna's dad and a very British hero called Pun: Why Major Lumley would be 'overwhelmed with shame' at the British Government's treatment of the Gurkhas"] by Geoffrey Wansell 18 September 2008 dailymail.co.uk (retrieved 3 May 2014.) Includes details of the the battle for Mogaung in northern Burma in June 1944 (3rd Battalion of the 6th Gurkha Rifles). Two Victoria Crosses were awarded as a result, to Capt. Michael Allmand, who was killed and to Rifleman Tul Bahadur Pun.
*[https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk The Gurkha Museum] Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Covers the [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd]], 6th, [[7th Gurkha Rifles|7th]] and [[10th Gurkha Rifles]], those Gurkha Regiments which became part of the British Army.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72740 ''The Gurkhas''] 1928 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Gurkhas: their Manners, Customs and Country'' by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles and Captain C J Morris 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. Also available as a download from [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1928-the-gurkhas-their-manners-customs-and-country-by-northey-s-pdf/ PAHAR] Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
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