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*'''1897''' [[Tirah Campaign|Tirah]]
*'''1908''' [[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns|Punjab Frontier]]
==First World War==
Regimental War Diaries are available from the National Archives, Kew, England. Note that many of these are hand written, however transcribed editions are available for Gallipoli, for the 4th Gurkha Rifles and for the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, of which the 4th Gurkha Rifles was a part, edited by Martin Gillott. publisher Great War Diaries, in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available, you don't need Kindle).
For National Archives references, and Theatres of War, refer External Links below.
== External Links ==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071110140505/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/gurkha/04GR.htm 4th (Prince of Wales's Own) Gurkha Rifles] Regiments.org, an archived website. Includes a bibliography.
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=Photo_24!(98)_f176r Photograph: [1/4th<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gurkhas at kit inspection showing kukris [Le Sart, France<nowiki>].</nowiki>] Photographer: H. D. Girdwood. Date: 24 Jul 1915. [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Photo_24/(98) Catalogue record] British Library Digitised Manuscripts.
*WW1 National Archives War Diary catalogue references, collaborativecollections.org:
**[http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/1st_Battalion_4th_Gurkha_Rifles,_Indian 1st Battalion 4th Gurkha Rifles] Theatres of War: France, Belgium and Germany; Gallipoli; India and East Persia.
***For Gallipoli, the [http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/29th_Indian_Infantry_Brigade 29th Indian Infantry Brigade] War Diary is also very relevant.
**[http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/2nd_Battalion_4th_Gurkha_Rifles,_Indian 2nd Battalion 4th Gurkha Rifles] Theatres of War: Mesopotamia and North Persia; Salonika, Black Sea and South Russia.
*[http://www.twgpp.org/downloads/news/TWGPP_Newsletter_Autumn_2012.pdf "Gurkha Connections"] by Jim Foulds, page 3 of Pdf "Autumn 2012 Newsletter of The War Graves Photographic Project". Article about the grave in Germany of Rifleman Kale Pun, of the 4th Gurkha Regiment During the conflict in North Africa in 1942, the 4GR were in the front line opposing superior German forces, taking grievous casualties. Rifleman Pun was one of the survivors who were rounded up and transferred to a POW camp in Germany. He died in Germany. There is mention of the book ''Bugles and A Tiger'' by [[John Masters]] recording his time as a young Officer of the 4th Gurkha Regiment and also on the North West Frontier in the 1930s. Available at the [[British Library]] and online, see below
*Listen to a [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/john-masters/ 1978 interview with John Masters (1914-1983), including transcripts] s-asian.cam.ac.uk
