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*[https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk The Gurkha Museum] Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Covers the 2nd, [[6th Gurkha Rifles|6th]], [[7th Gurkha Rifles|7th]] and [[10th Gurkha Rifles]], those Gurkha Regiments which became part of the British Army.
===Historical books online===
*''History of the 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)'' by Colonel L W Shakespear 2nd KEO Goorkha Rifles. :[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012317171?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 Volume I] from 1815 , published 1912. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1912-history-of-2nd-king-edwards-own-goorkha-rifles-sirmoor-rifles-by-shakespear-s-pdf/ PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD)] (link to a pdf download). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1912.:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4522146?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume II 1911-1921], published 1924. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Volume II is also available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsXTJ-PEPl online on fold 3] (Ancestry owned pay website) in a Naval & Military Press reprint edition, located in World War IIInternational/Military Books/India (where possibly images and maps may be clearer).
:Volume III, by G R Stevens, is for the period 1921-1948, and is available at the British Library, part of UIN: BLL01013084299, which advises there is also a Volume IV, 1948-2003.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72740 ''The Gurkhas''] 1928 Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''The Gurkhas: their Manners, Customs and Country'' by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles and Captain C J Morris 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. Also available as a download from [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1928-the-gurkhas-their-manners-customs-and-country-by-northey-s-pdf/ PAHAR] Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.22833 ''The Land Of The Gurkhas Or The Himalayan Kingdom Of Nepal''] by Major W Brook Northey, late 1st KGO Gurkha Rifles. Reprint edition, first published 1937. Archive.org. The author held the post of Recruiting Officer for five years, during which he was permitted to visit the interiors of Nepal that were out of bounds to other Europeans. Also available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1935-land-of-the-gurkhas-or-himalayan-kingdom-of-nepal-by-northey-s-pdf/ download as a pdf] from PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
* ''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. If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Nepal/1965.
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