History & Collections
Gurkha V.C. In Burma – Agansing Rai.
Agansing Rai was born in 1920 and recruited into the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1941. He rose to become a ...
Gurkhas and the Fall of Tobruk – 21st June 1942
The port city of Tobruk in Libya, North Africa, was of crucial strategic importance to both the Allied and Axis forces in ...
Gurkha Victoria Crosses – Fighting with the Chindits – Michael Allmand.
Michael Allmand was born in 1923 and, though young, responded enthusiastically when called up for military service in 1942, ...
Gurkhas and the Empire Gallantry Medal and George Cross
Naik Nandlal Thapa and Lance Naik Chitrabahadur Gurung. Over the course of its history, 26 Victoria Crosses, the ...
Gurkhas at Potsangbam – May 12th-15th 1944
On 12th May 1944, 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles (1/10GR) undertook what has been described as ‘one of the ...
The Brigade of Gurkhas and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Prince Philip’s connections to the Brigade of Gurkhas are perhaps most famously exampled by the retitling of the ...
Rifleman Karanbahadur Rana VC and the action at El-Kefr, Palestine
By early 1918 British and Allied forces had placed Ottoman Turkish troops on the defensive on all fronts, advancing steadily ...
Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa V.C. and the Battle of Wadi Akarit
The first award of a Victoria Cross to a Gurkha soldier during the Second World War was to Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa of 2nd ...
Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung and Tamandu Day – 5th March 1945
Rifleman Bhanbhagta Gurung was born in September 1921 in Phalpu in the Gorkha District of Nepal and joined ...
The Treaty of Segauli – 4th March 1816
A TREATY OF “PERPETUAL PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP” After Nepal was unified into a modern state in the 1760’s and 70’s ...
Try our Gurkha Themed Puzzles!
We've created some fun puzzles out of some our most famous paintings and pictures. Click here to challenge yourself and ...
A Selfless Bravery – Kulbir Thapa’s V.C. Action
Greater Love Hath no man than that he lay down his life for another – or show himself prepared to do so. It was during ...
