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*WW2Talk Forum topics discuss aspects of the Regiment during [[Second World War|WW2]].<ref>Zahonado. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/8th-ghurka-rifles.26614/ 8th Ghurka Rifles] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 22 December 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2018. </ref><ref> dryan67. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/1st-battalion-8th-gurkha-rifles.60259/#post-696547 1st Battalion 8th Gurkha Rifles] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 21 January 2016. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the ''WW2Talk Forum'' post [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/indian-army-an-organisational-history.52920/ Indian Army: An Organisational History]. Retrieved 6 October 2018.</ref>
==Historical books online==
*[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.
*[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.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/126645 ''The Gurkhas''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [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.
:[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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