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For National Archives references, and Theatres of War, refer External Links below.
== External Links links ==*[httphttps://www.6thgurkhas.org6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles] Official website**Includes links to the following 6 GR Journals which are available on issue.com. Click on full screen for ease of reading. Download also available.***[https://issuu.com/websiteinternationalsalvageunion/docs/the6grra_2020_journal_100_redacted ''The Journal 6GR'' No 100, 2020] Includes article page 68 (digital page 70) "Slim Sahib" by John Mackinlay. WJ Slim, later Major-regiment General, The Regiment: was posted to the 1st Battalion, 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles] (retrieved 3 at Abbottabad in May 2014)1920. Also includes 1934 photograph of Officers page 2. ***[httphttps://booksissuu.googlecom/internationalsalvageunion/docs/journal_99 ''The Journal 6GR'' No 99, 2019]***[https://issuu.co.ukcom/internationalsalvageunion/docs/books?id=TCvyed3WstwC&pg=PA6&dq=Early+Years&as_brr=3&ei=yITXSbzaEp3CMrS2zfwC#PPA7journal_98 ''The Journal 6GR'' No 98,M1 The Gurkha Rifles2018] . Includes article page 76 (digital page 78) by John Mackinlay about the early history of the regiment in Assam under Commanding Officer of the First Assam Light Infantry Simon Fraser Hannay 1839 to 1861, including some extract from the journal of his wife Margaret who died 1841. The Gurkha Rifles by J B R Nicholson & Michael Rolfe<br>regiment was subsequently named 42nd Assam Regiment of Native Infantry (Light Infantry)
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/gurkha/6thgurkhas.htm 6th Gurkha Rifles] British Empire Website<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Gurkha_Rifles 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles] Wikipedia
*[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.
