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*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition
*'''1950''' became 9 Gorkha Rifles
== External Links links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/gurkha/9thgurkhas.htm 9th Gurkha Rifles] British Empire website<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_Gorkha_Rifles 9 Gorkha Rifles] Wikipedia
*Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=200250&hl= thread] topic about Lieutenant Richard Crawhall Walton 1st Bn. 9th Gurkha Rifles, killed in action near La Bassée, France on the 7th November, 1914, and buried near Neuve Chapelle. (Includes an obituary in the form of a pdf only available to [[Mailing lists#Military| logged in members ]] of the GWF, probably from the book ''Liverpool's Scroll of Fame''.<ref>Guest Jonathan Clay.[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/200250-9th-gurkha-rifles/?do=findComment&comment=1996332 9th Gurkha Rifles] ''Great War Forum'' 1 December 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2020.</ref>)
*[http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/major-george-campbell-wheeler Soldiers' Stories: Major George Campbell Wheeler] 9th Gurkha Rifles, won the Victoria Cross while crossing the River Tigris during the Second Battle of Kut on 23 February 1917. nam.ac.uk.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now an archived web page. Includes brief mention of 9/Gurkhas.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225479 "9th Gurkha Rifles uniform particulars from the 1930s"] by Tony Mains. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 75, No. 302 (Summer 1997), pp. 138-142. Read online for free on the website Jstor.org, subject to registration with Jstor.org, and restrictions apply. For more details about Jstor, and the restrictions, see the page [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Alternatively you may be able to log in with a Library card.
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80017777 1998 interview with Percival Scott Leathart], British officer served with 3/9th Gurkha Rifles in Waziristan, India, Arakan, Burma, during Second Chindit Expedition in Burma and in Java, 1941-1946. Imperial War Museums.
* ''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 final chapter 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.
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