29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
==Regimental histories==
* ''A history of the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1857-1937'' compiled by Ranald Macdonell ... and Marcus Macaulay with illustrations by Lieutenant-Colonel C.G. Borrowman.:Vol. 2 covers the history from 1919-1937 and is available online, refer below.
:Vol. 3, 1938-1948, compiled by J.N. Mackay, edited and illustrated by C.G. Borrowman.
:Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795371 Three volumes, first published 1940-1952.
:Available online [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001589087 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with access through a participating universitywhere the volumes are searchable, but not viewable.
==First World War==
===Online books===
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.502938 ''A History of the 4th Prince of Walesʼs Own Gurkha Rifles 1857-1937, Volume II'' [1919-1937<nowiki>]</nowiki>] compiled by Ronald Macdonell and Marcus Macaulay with illustrations by Lieutenant-Colonel C.G. Borrowman 2nd edition catalogued 1960, first published c 1940. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Spelling of author's name as appears on the title page.
*''Bugles And A Tiger'' by John Masters 1965 edition [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629 Archive.org mirror version 1]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201985 Archive.org mirror version 2], both originally from Digital Library of India
:[http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles and a Tiger, a Volume of Autobiography''] 1956 may be borrowed from the [http://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary Internet Archive Lending Library]. Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned, First you must [http://openlibrary.org/account/create sign up with the Open Library]
:[https://archive.org/details/roadpastmandalay00mast ''The Road Past Mandalay''] by John Masters 1979. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. Earlier title: ''The Road Past Mandalay : a Personal Narrative''. First published 1961. 2nd volume of Autobiography. The short first part takes Masters and the 2/4th Ghurkas to Iraq and Syria. After a staff course back in India, the balance of the book concerns his time in Burma, with a Chindit Column. Also see the Fibiwiki page [[John Masters]].
*''Handbooks for the Indian Army: Gurkhas''. Compiled under the orders of the Government by Lieut- Colonel Eden Vansittart 2nd Bn 10th Gurkha Rifles. revised by Major B U Nicolay 1st Bn, 4th Gurkha Rifles 1915 (Reprint 1918). Catalogued as Gurkhas (1915): [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.237136 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India.
* ''The Gurkhas'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126645 Archive.org version], originally 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.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1965-the-gurkhas-by-james-s-pdf/ ''The Gurkhas''] by James, 1965. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005CF22#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&z=0%2C-282.3696%2C2778%2C2737.7391 ''Chin-Lushai Land including a Description of the Various Expeditions into the Chin-Lushai Hills and the Final Annexation of the Country''] by Surg.-Lieut.-Col. A S Reid, Indian Medical Service, Medical Officer in Charge 2nd Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles 1893. British Library Digital file.
