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*[https://archive.org/details/memoriesofsevenc00thorrich/page/104 Page 104]''Memories of Seven Campaigns: a record of thirty-five years' service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan'' by James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Service, late Principal Medical Officer Punjab Frontier Force. 1895 Archive.org. (The author was in the Bengal Medical Service 1856-1891). The author was appointed as Medical officer of the 44th Regiment of Native Infantry in March 1862, which took part in operations around Jowai. He was subsequently based at Cherra Poonjee in the Khasi Hills, Assam, took part in the [[Duar War|Bhutan War]], and was then based at [[Shillong]], until October 1868, when he took leave and left the regiment (page 154).
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023224490 ''With Mounted Infantry In Tibet''] by Brevet Major W J Ottley, 34th Sikh Pioneers 1906 Archive.org. The dedication mentions members of the 8th Gurkha Rifles.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2253/mode/2up ''Sport and Service in Assam, and Elsewhere''] by Lt.-Col Alban Wilson, late 1st Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles. 1924. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Some of the contents first appeared in the ''Fishing Gazette'' and Indian papers such as the ''Pioneer''. Covers the period from c 1890.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1952-history-of-8th-gurkha-rifles-1824-1949-by-huxford-s-pdf/ ''History of the 8th Gurkha Rifles, 1824-1949''] by H. J. Huxford. 1952. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1952. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2967 Archive.org mirror version].
* ''The Gurkhas'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India . 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.
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